980                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 549

certificate of authority or license, but in no case to be less than Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000).

(c) Any corporation to which such certificate of authority or li-
cense has been issued, until expiration or revocation thereof, shall be
authorized to issue contracts in the form or forms filed with the In-
surance Commissioner, to the persons who may become subscribers
to such plan.

328.

No corporation subject to the provisions of this sub-title shall
amend its certificate of incorporation, its by-laws, the terms and
provisions of contracts executed or to be executed with hospitals,
physicians, chiropodists or dentists, and the terms and provisions of
contracts issued, or proposed to be issued, to subscribers of the plan,
until such proposed amendments have been first submitted to, and
approved by, the Insurance Commissioner; nor shall any change be
made in the table of rates charged, or proposed to be charged, to sub-
scribers for any form of contract issued or to be issued for hospital,
medical, chiropodial or dental care until such proposed change has
been submitted to, and approved by, the Insurance Commissioner.
Upon the adoption of any such amendment or change, following its
approval by the Insurance Commissioner, such corporation shall file
a copy thereof with the Insurance Commissioner, duly certified to by
at least two (2) of the executive officers of such corporation.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963. IT IS THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT THAT IF SAID
CHAPTER ......... (SENATE BILL NO. 1) IS ENACTED AND EF-
FECTIVE AT THAT TIME, THIS ACT THEN BECOMES AN
AMENDMENT TO SECTIONS 354, 355 AND 356 OF ARTICLE
48A OF THE CODE AS THEREIN REVISED. IF SAID CHAP-
TER ......... (SENATE BILL NO. 1) HAS BEEN ENACTED BUT IS

NOT YET EFFECTIVE AT THAT TIME, THIS ACT BECOMES
AN AMENDMENT TO SECTIONS 326, 327 AND 328 OF AR-
TICLE 48A OF THE CODE (1957 EDITION AS AMENDED)

UNTIL SUCH TIME AS CHAPTER......... (SENATE BILL NO. 1)

BECOMES EFFECTIVE, AT WHICH TIME THIS ACT SHALL
BECOME AN AMENDMENT TO SECTIONS 354, 355 AND 356
IN ARTICLE 48A AS THUS REVISED. IF SENATE BILL NO. 1
HAS NOT BEEN ENACTED DURING THE 1963 REGULAR
SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THIS ACT CON-
TINUES AS AN AMENDMENT TO SECTIONS 326, 327 AND 328
OF ARTICLE 48A OF THE CODE.

Approved April 30, 1963.

CHAPTER 549
(Senate Bill 336)

AN ACT to add new Section 338A to Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Health", sub-title "Plumb-
ing", to follow immediately after Section 338 thereof, providing
that Worcester County shall not be governed by the State Plumb-