1502                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 814

President, Secretary and Treasurer thereof shall be severally liable

to such fine and imprisonment as herein provided for such failure.

Any fine levied against any employer failing or refusing to secure
insurance as required by this Article shall be paid into the State
Treasury and credited to the [State Industrial Accident] Commis-
sion, and be used for the payment, in whole or in part, of any award
made against said employer by the [State Industrial Accident] Com-
mission. All disbursements shall be made in the same manner as
other monies of the [State Industrial Accident] Commission are
disbursed. Any part of said fine not required for payment of an award
as herein provided shall be transferred to the General Treasury. The
Court may, in its discretion, remit any such penalty, provided ONLY
IF the employer in default assures the compensation as provided in
this section;, and provided, further, that he has paid or secured to be
paid any compensation or other benefits under this Article which may
have been awarded against him.

18. (e) No contract [or] of insurance issued by a stock company
or mutual association against liability arising under this Article shall
be cancelled within the time limited in such contract for its expira-
tion until at least [ten] thirty days after notice of intention to cancel
such contract, on a date specified in such notice, shall be filed in the
office of the Commission and also served on the employer. Such
notice shall be served on the employer by delivering it to him or by
sending it by mail, by registered letter, addressed to the employer
at his or its last known place of residence; provided, that if the em-
ployer be a partnership, then such notice may be so given to any one
of the partners, and if the employer be a corporation, then the notice
may be given to any agent or officer of the corporation upon whom
legal process may be served. When an employer receives notice from
an insurance company in accordance with the provisions of this para-
graph that a contract for workmen's compensation insurance issued
to such employer will be cancelled upon the expiration of the time
stated in the notice, it shall be the duty of the employer, immediately
thereafter, to secure compensation to his employees in accordance
with one of the ways set forth in Section 15 of this Article which
will be in force on the date the above mentioned cancellation becomes
effective.

(f) Any employer who shall fail to secure compensation to his
employees or their dependents in accordance with one of the ways
set forth in Section 15 of this Article, which will be in force on the
date a cancellation of a contract of insurance becomes effective, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine of not less
than Five Hundred Dollars ($500) nor more than Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,000). [.] or by imprisonment for not more than one year,

or by both such fines or imprisonment; and in any case where the

employer is a corporation, the President, Secretary and Treasurer

thereof shall be severally liable to such fine and imprisonment as

herein provided for such failure. The disposition of fines levied
against an employer under this section shall be in the manner provided
under Section 15 of this Article.

35. (1) Permanent Total Disability (a) In case of total disability,
adjudged to be permanent, sixty-six and two-thirds percentum of
the average weekly wages shall be paid to the employee by the em-