1238                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 603

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 425 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Insurance," subtitle "24. Group
Life Insurance," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

425.

No such policy of group life insurance may be issued to an em-
ployer, or to a labor union, or to the trustees of a fund established
in whole or in part by an employer or a labor union or association,
which provides term insurance on any person which together with
any other term insurance under any group life insurance policy or
policies issued to the employers of such person or to a labor union or
labor unions of which such person is a member or to the trustees
of a fund or funds established in whole or in part by such employer
or employers or such labor union or labor unions or association,
exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), unless [one hundred and
fifty per cent (150%)] two hundred, per cent (200%) of the annual
compensation of such person from his employer or employers exceeds
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), in which event all such term
insurance shall not exceed [forty thousand dollars ($40,000)] one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or [one hundred and fifty per
cent (150%)] two hundred per cent (200%) of such annual com-
pensation, whichever is the lesser.

No insurer may offer as a defense to any claim made under a
group term life policy that the amount of insurance is in excess of
the limits hereinabove stated.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1,1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 603
(House Bill 629)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2-3 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Frederick County (1960 Edition,
being Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Frederick County," subtitle "Article II. County Commis-
sioners," as last amended by Chapter 305 of the Acts of 1953,
to provide for the date that the County Commissioners of Fred-
erick County shall take office.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2-3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Frederick
County (1960 Edition, being Article II of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Frederick County," subtitle "Article II.
County Commissioners," as last amended by Chapter 305 of the
Acts of 1953, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows: