SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       265

corporation in the State shall be liable to such fine and imprison-
ment as herein provided. [The deposition of fines levied against
an employer under this section shall be in the manner provided
under Section 16 of this article.] Any such fines levied and col-
lected from employers shall be paid into the Uninsured Employers'
Fund.

Uninsured Employer's Fund
85.

(a)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, when
a claim for compensation is filed by an employee, or in case of
death, by his dependents, and the employer has failed (1) to secure
the payment of compensation in accordance with Section 16 of this
article, (2) to make deposit of security in accordance with Section
16 of this article and (3) to make payment of compensation accord-
ing to the terms of any award within thirty days thereafter, then,
unless an application for review has been timely made or a notice
of appeal has been timely served in the interim, the award shall
be payable out of the Fund created under this subtitle in the
manner and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth.

(b)    The Commission promptly after the elapse of the thirty
day period shall notify the Fund in writing of the employer's de-
fault in making payment of the award. The Fund, within thirty
days after the date of such notice, shall notify the Commission,
in writing, whether it objects to the findings and decision on which
the award is based, the award made, or the liability of the Fund
for payment thereof. If the Fund notifies the Commission that it
neither objects to said findings, decision, award, or the Fund's liabil-
ity therefor, payment of the award shall be promptly made from
the Fund in accordance with the terms thereof and the provisions
of Section 87 of this Article. In the event the Fund shall notify
the Commission that it objects to the findings, decision, award, or
the liability of the Fund therefor, its objections shall be considered
as an application for review pursuant to the provisions of Section
90 of this Article.

(c)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, awards
made pursuant to Section 47 of this Article shall not be the liability
of the fund and shall not be payable therefrom.

86.

(a)    There is hereby created a fund which shall be known as
the "Uninsured Employers' Fund" to provide for the payment of
awards against uninsured defaulting employers in accordance with
the provisions of this subtitle.

(b)    For the purpose of establishing and maintaining this
Fund, the Commission, upon rendering a decision with respect to
any claim for compensation under AGAINST AN UNINSURED
EMPLOYER AS DEFINED IN SECTION 97 OF this article shall
impose an assessment in the sum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.-
00) against the employer and direct its payment into the Fund in con-
nection with each such claim wherein injury shall have occurred on or
after the first day of January 1968, or in death cases, where death
as the result of injury shall have occurred on or after said date.