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any motor vehicle while in use as a public or common carrier
of persons, nor shall any person drive such vehicle until he has
been licensed as a chauffeur and received a special chauffeur's
license, provided that the requirement of a special chauffeur's
license shall not apply to operators of school buses.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed upon by yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 563.
(House Bill 373)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 48A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Insurance", sub-
title "General Provisions", said new section to immediately
follow Section 40 and to be known as Section 40A, the pur-
pose of which is to relieve officers, directors and trustees of
domestic insurers, including domestic mutual insurance com-
panies, attorneys-in-fact for reciprocal exchanges or inter-
insurers and Lloyds Associations, from liability for pay-
ment of taxes and fees imposed by statutes that may later
be declared to be unconstitutional, and to provide a six-
month limitation period with respect to any suit against any
such officer, director or trustee, based upon any such pay-
ment made prior to the passage of this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Insurance", sub-title "General Provisions", said
new section to immediately follow Section 40 and to be known
as Section 40A, and to read as follows:

40A. (Officers', Directors', etc., Liability Immunity. )
(a) No officer, director or trustee of any domestic insurer,
including domestic mutual insurance companies, attorneys-in-
fact for reciprocal exchanges, or inter-insurers, or Lloyds
Associations, shall be subject to any personal liability by
reason of any payment, or determination not to contest pay-