SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                           9

be given progressive implementation by the Governor of Maryland
in making future appointments to the Board of Education of Balti-
more County, to the end that without affecting the tenure of any
member of the Board in office on the effective date of this Act, the
full provisions of this Act shall become effective through future
appointments and at the earliest possible time.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1,1967.

Passed over the Governor's Veto, June 22, 1967.

CHAPTER 4*
(Senate Bill 637)

AN ACT to repeal Section 228 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Insurance", sub-
title "Unfair Trade Practices", and to re-enact a new Section 228
to stand in the place of the section so repealed and to be under
the new subheading "Coerced and Tie-in Sales Prohibited", to
provide that it shall be unlawful to require any person as a con-
dition to the receipt of a loan or any other consideration to buy
insurance from any given agent, broker or insurer; to prohibit
any insurance transaction or plan which is tied in with some other
consideration; to prohibit the public solicitation of combination
plans, and providing generally for the free choice of insurance.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 228 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Insurance", subtitle "Unfair
Trade Practices", be and it is hereby repealed and that new Section
228 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Re-
placement Volume), title "Insurance", subtitle "Unfair Trade Prac-
tices", be and it is hereby re-enacted to stand in the place of the
section so repealed and to be under the new subheading "Coerced
and Tie-in Sales Prohibited", and to read as follows:

228.

(a)  It shall be unlawful for any person to require that as a con-
dition, agreement or understanding to selling or furnishing any other
person any loan, credit, sale, goods, property, contract, lease or
service that such other person shall purchase insurance of any kind
through any given agent, broker or insurer; and no agent, broker
or insurer shall participate in any such combination plan or trans-

action; and no person shall fix a price charged for such thing or

service, or discout from, or rebate upon price, on the condition,

agreement or understanding that any insuranoe is to be obtained
through the favored agent, broker or insurer.

(b)  No person shall solicit, and no agent, broker or insurer shall
participate in any plan of public solicitation of the combinations of

* This Bill was passed by both Houses of the General Assembly during the
Regular Session of 1967. It was vetoed by the Governor, and the veto was over-
ridden at the Special Session of June 22, 1967.