J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        27

of Maryland (1962 Supplement), title "Workmen's Compensation",
sub-title "State Accident Fund", be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

76 (b)

Upon the failure of an employer to comply with the requirements
of [the preceding paragraph] sub-section (a) of this section, the
commissioners or superintendent or assistant superintendent of the
State Accident Fund may cancel the policy of insurance of any such
employer, such cancellation to be effective upon the expiration of at
least thirty days after notice of intention to cancel such policy, on a
date specified in such notice, shall be filed in the office of the Work-
men's Compensation 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 employer 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 the State Accident Fund in accordance with the pro-
visions of this sub-section that a policy for workmen's compensation
insurance issued to such employer will be cancelled upon the expira-
tion of the time stated in the notice, it shall be the duty of the
employer, immediately thereafter, to secure compensation for his
employees in accordance with one of the ways set forth in Section 16
of this article which will be in force on the date the above-mentioned
cancellation becomes effective.

77 (b)

If an employer default in any payment required to be made by him
by the State Accident Fund the amount due by him may be collected
by civil action in the name of the State of Maryland and the com-
missioners, or superintendent or assistant superintendent of the State
Accident Fund whenever they or he may deem it necessary, shall
refer to the Attorney General of the State the names, residences or
places of business of any employer known to the commissioners or
superintendent or assistant superintendent to be in default of such
payment or payments, and the amount due from such employer and
it shall then be the duty of the Attorney General forthwith to bring
or cause to be brought against the employer a civil action in the
proper court for the collection of the amount so due, and the same
when collected, shall be paid into the State Accident Fund, and the
policy or contract of insurance which the State Accident Fund has
issued to such employer shall cease to be in effect from the date the
thirty day notice expires as provided in [paragraph one] sub-section
(a), and said policy or contract of insurance shall not again be in
effect until all premiums due by such employer shall be paid into the
State Accident Fund.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved February 26, 1963.