THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 2003

and Health Insurance, " providing for the approval of acci-
dent and health policy forms and standard provisions relat-
ing thereto, and to enact in lieu thereof eleven new sections
to said Article 48A (1947 Supplement), title "Insurance, "
sub-title "Life, Accident and Health Insurance, " to be
known as Sections 106A, 106B, 106C, 106D, 106E, 106F,
106G, 106H, 106-I, 106J, and 106K, to be titled the "Uniform
Individual Accident and Sickness Policy Provisions Law. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 106A, 106B, 106C and 106D of Article 48A
of the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1947 Supplement), title
"Insurance", sub-title "Life, Accident and Health Insurance",
be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted as aforesaid, That eleven new
sections to Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1947 Supplement), title "Insurance", sub-title "Life, Accident
and Health Insurance", to be known as Sections 106A, 106B,
106C, 106D, 106E, 106F, 106G, 106H, 106-1, 106J and 106K
be and the same are hereby enacted, to read as follows:

106A. (Definition of Accident and Sickness Insurance
Policy. ) The term "policy of accident and sickness insurance"
as used herein includes any policy or contract covering insur-
ance against loss resulting from sickness or from bodily injury
or death by accident, or both.

106B. (Form of Policy. ) (A) No policy of accident and
sickness insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery to
any person in this State unless:

(1) the entire money and other considerations therefor are
expressed therein; and

(2) the time at which the insurance takes effect and ter-
minates is expressed therein; and

(3) it purports to insure only one person, except that a
policy may insure, originally or by subsequent amendment,,
upon the application of an adult member of a family who shall
be deemed the policyholder, any two or more eligible members
of that family, including husband, wife, dependent children
or any children under a specified age which shall not exceed
nineteen years and any other person dependent upon the policy-
holder; and

(4) the style, arrangement and over-all appearance of the
policy give no undue prominence to any portion of the text,
and unless every printed portion of the text of the policy and