Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                  1563

(a)  Stock company rating organization members;

(b)  Mutual company rating organization members;

(c)  Independent stock companies; and

(d)  Independent mutual and other companies.

A person designated as a representative shall be an employee or
officer of an insurer of the class which he represents. None of the
members of the board shall receive any compensation or remunera-
tion from the fund. Such board shall maintain an office in this state,
administer the fund subject to the provisions of this Act, SUB-
TITLE, determine its cash requirements, and the amounts, if any,
available for investment, and shall have the power to employ such
administrative, clerical and other help as may be necessary to the
proper discharge of the duties of the board. The commissioner in the
administration of the Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Law and
the board in the administration of this sub-title shall cooperate in
order to avoid duplication and to achieve efficiency and economy.

145D. Rules and regulations. The board may, from time to time,
adopt, amend and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations neces-
sary or desirable in its opinion in connection with its functions, duties
and responsibilities in administering this sub-title.

145E. Notice of accident and intention to file claim.

(a) Any qualified person, who suffers damages resulting from
bodily injury or death or damage to property arising out of the
ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle in this state on or
after the first day of June 1959, and whose damages may be satisfied
in whole or in part from the fund or the personal representative of
such person, shall, within 90 days after the accident, as a condition
precedent to the right thereafter to apply for the payment from the
fund, give notice to the board, as prescribed by it, of his intention to
make a claim thereon for such damages, if otherwise uncollectible,
and shall otherwise comply with the provisions of this section; pro-
vided, any such qualified person may, in lieu of giving said notice
within said time, make proof to the court on the hearing of the appli-
cation for the payment of a judgment, or during the hearing of an
application to sue the commissioner under section 145R, that he was
physically incapable of giving said notice within said period and that
he gave said notice within 30 days after he became physically capable
to do so or, in the event that he did not become so capable, that a
notice was given on his behalf within a reasonable period. In said
notice he shall describe the manner in which the accident occurred,
specifying the time and place of occurrence, identify the operators
and vehicles involved therein and such witnesses to said accident as
are then known to him and describe the injuries then known to him
and the damage to property sustained. Said notice shall be accom-
panied by

(1)  Certification by a physician of the injuries sustained so far as
they can then be anticipated and of the treatment afforded by him.

(2)  Itemized estimates of an automobile repairman or itemized
bill, of the cost of repairs if the damage is to an automobile.