2 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 2

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 8
of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Unemployment Compensation", sub-title "Period, Election
and Termination of Employer's Coverage", and sub-section
(f) of Section 19 of said Article, sub-title "Definitions", as
said Article was enacted by Chapter 1 of the Acts of the
Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of December, 1936, relating to the number of employees
which subjects an employing unit to the provisions of this
Article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 8 of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Unemployment Compensation", sub-title
"Period, Election and Termination of Employer's Coverage",
as said Article was enacted by Chapter 1 of the Acts of the
Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of Maryland
of December, 1936, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

8. (a) Any employing unit which is or becomes an employer
subject to this Act within any calendar year shall be subject
to this Act during the whole of such calendar year.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in sub-section (e) of this
section, an employing unit shall cease to be an employer sub-
ject to this Act only as of the first day of January of any cal-
endar year, if it files with the Board prior to the fifth day of
January of such year, a written application for termination of
coverage, and the Board finds that as of the first day of Jan-
uary, 1936 and 1937, there were no 20 different weeks within
the preceding calendar year within which such employing \init
employed eight or more individuals in employment subject to
this Act, or that as of the first day of January of the calendar
year 1938 or any calendar year thereafter, there were no 20
different weeks within the preceding calendar year within
which such employing unit employed four or more individuals
in employment subject to this Act. For the purpose of this
sub-section the two or more employing units mentioned in
paragraph (2) or (3) or (4) of Section 19 (f) shall be treated
as a single employing unit.

(c) (1) An employing unit, not otherwise subject to this
Act, which files with the Board its written election to become
an employer subject hereto for not less than two calendar
years, shall, with the written approval of such election by the
Board, become an employer subject hereto to the same extent