910                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 487

(e)    No plaintiff or complainant shall be entitled to a judgment
by default until the expiration of forty-five (45) days from the date
of filing of the affidavit of compliance.

(f)    Nothing contained in this subtitle shall limit or abridge the
right to serve any process, notice or demand upon any person or
insurer in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law.

206.

(a)    Any act of doing an insurance business as set forth in Sec-
tion 203 of this Article by any unauthorized person or insurer is
equivalent to and shall constitute an irrevocable appointment by such
person or insurer, binding upon him, his executor, administrator or
personal representative, or successor in interest if a corporation, of
the Secretary of State, his successor or successors in office to be the
true and lawful attorney of such person or insurers upon whom may
be served all legal process in any action, suit or proceeding in any
court by the Commissioner or by the State and upon whom may be
served any notice, order, pleading or process in any proceeding be-
fore the Commissioner and which arises out of doing an insurance
business in this State by such person or insurer. Any act of doing
an insurance business as set forth in Section 203 of this Article by
any unauthorized person or insurer shall be signification of its agree-
ment that any such legal process in such court action, suit or pro-
ceeding and any such notice, order, pleading or process in such
administrative proceeding before the Commissioner so served shall
be of the same legal force and validity as personal service of process
in this State upon such person or insurer, or upon his executor,
administrator or personal representative, or its successor in interest
if a corporation.

(b)    Such service of process in such action, suit or proceeding in
any court or such notice, order, pleading or process in such adminis-
trative proceeding authorized by subsection (a) of this section shall
be made by leaving two copies thereof with the Secretary of State or
some person in apparent charge of his office. A certificate by the
Secretary of State showing such service and attached to the original
or third copy of such process presented to him for that purpose shall
be sufficient evidence thereof. Service upon the Secretary of State
as such attorney shall be service upon the principal.

(c)    The Secretary of State shall forthwith mail one copy of such
court process or such notice, order, pleading or process in proceed-
ings before the Commissioner to the defendant in such court pro-
ceeding or to whom the notice, order, pleading or process in such
administrative proceeding is addressed or directed at its last known
principal place of business and shall keep a record of all process so
served on him which shall show the day and hour of service. Such
service is sufficient, provided notice of such service and a copy of
the court process or the notice, order, pleading or process in such
administrative proceeding are sent within ten (10) days thereafter
by registered mail by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney in the
court proceeding or by the Commissioner in the administrative pro-
ceeding to the defendant in the court proceeding or to whom the
notice, order, pleading or process in such administrative proceeding
is addressed or directed at its last known principal place of business
of the defendant in the court or administrative proceeding, and the