Marvin Mandel, Governor                          1025

With premiums written in the most recent calendar year
not exceeding $1,000,000......................._:..................................................................$1,000.00

With premiums written in the most recent calendar year
not exceeding $2,000,000..........................................................................................$2,000.00

With premiums written in the most recent calendar year
not exceeding $5,000,000..........................................................................................$3,000.00

With premiums written in the most recent calendar year
of more than $5,000,000 .......................................................................................$3,500.00

[(iv)] (v) Reinstatement of certificate of authority...............$ 10.00

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 444
(Senate Bill 512)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 31 of
Article 9 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement
Volume), title "Attachments," subtitle "Attachments of Wages or
Hire," and to repeal Sections 31A and 31B of said Article, title
and subtitle of said Code, to establish the exemption from attach-
ment of wages and to prohibit employers from discharging em-
ployees because of attachment of their wages under certain cir-
cumstances, and providing a penalty for violating this provision.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 31 of Article 9 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume), title "Attachments," subtitle "Attach-
ments of Wages or Hire," and to repeal Sections 31A and 31B of
said Article, title and subtitle of said Code, and all to read as follows:

31.

(a) No attachment of the wages or hire of any laborer or em-
ployee, in the hands of the employer, whether private individuals
or bodies incorporate, shall affect any salary or wages of the debtor
which are not actually due at the date of the attachment, and the
sum of one hundred dollars multiplied by the number of weeks in
which such wages due were earned or seventy-five percent (75%)
of such wages of hire, whichever is greater, due to any laborer or
employee by any employer or corporation shall always be exempt
from attachment by any process whatever EXCEPT THAT IN
CAROLINE, WORCESTER, KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S COUN-
TIES THE EXEMPTION FOR ANY WORKWEEK SHALL BE
THE GREATER OF SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT (75%) OF THE
WAGES DUE OR THIRTY (30) TIMES THE FEDERAL MINI-
MUM HOURLY WAGE PROVIDED BY SECTION 6 (A) (1) OF
THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938, U.S.C. TIT. 29,
SECTION 206 (A) (1), IN EFFECT AT THE TIME THE EARN-