978 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 469

CHAPTER 469.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
45 of Article 48A of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Insurance, " sub-title "General Provis-
ions, " as enacted by Chapter 234 of the Acts of 1924, re-
lating to rebating and discriminations by fire and miscel-
laneous insurance companies and their agents and their
representatives.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 45 of Article 48A of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Insurance, " sub-
title "General Provisions, " as enacted by Chapter 234 of
the Acts of 1924, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

45. REBATING AND DISCRIMINATIONS PROHIB-
ITED (Fire and Miscellaneous). No corporation, asso-
ciation, partnership, Lloyd's, individual underwriters or re-
ciprocal associations, authorized or permitted to do any
insurance business within this State, or any officer, agent,
solicitor, or representative thereof, and no insurance
broker, individual, co-partnership or corporation author-
ized or permitted to do business as such in this State, or
any officer, agent, solicitor or representative thereof, shall
with intent to discriminate make or permit any dis-
tinction in rates applied or premiums charged or dividends
or other benefits returned, or the terms or conditions of
insurance, whereby any person whose property is insured
in a particular company is favored as compared with an-
other whose property is insured in such company and is of
the same character and condition and similarly situated as
to exposure, ownership, control, possession or occupancy and
risk as his; or make or negotiate any contract for in-
surance on property or risk located within this State, or
against liability, casualty, accident or hazard that may
arise or occur therein, or any agreement as to such con-
tract, other than as plainly expressed in the policy or
contract of insurance issued or to be issued thereon, nor
directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, as in-
ducement to such insurance, pay, allow, or offer to pay or
allow to the insured named in such policy, or to any em-
ployee of such insured, nor shall any such insured or the
employee of such insured, directly or indirectly accept or
knowingly receive, or agree to accept or receive in any
manner whatsoever, as inducement to such insurance, at
any time or under any conditions, before or after the in-