1604                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 743

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(4a) A person who, from one accident, receives an award of
compensation for a period of two hundred and fifty (250) weeks or
more under subsections (3) or (4) or a combination of both, is
thereby considered to have a serious disability; except any award for
disfigurement or mutilation under subsection (3)(f) of this section
shall not be considered in the determination of a serious disability.
The weeks for such award shall be increased by one third (computed
to the nearest whole number); and the compensation shall be for
sixty-six and two thirds per centum of the average weekly wages,
in no case to exceed sixty-five dollars ($65.00) per week and not
less than a minimum of twenty-five dollars per week unless the
employee's established weekly wages are less than twenty-five dollars
per week at the time of the injury, in which event he shall receive
compensation equal to his full wages. This subsection, to the extent
of any inconsistency, prevails over [subsection] subsections (3)
and (4); but otherwise subsections (3) and (4) apply to persons
covered by this subsection. Provided, however, that any additional
compensation for permanent partial disability on a petition to reopen
shall not increase the amount of compensation previously awarded
and actually paid.

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It shall be the duty of the commissioners of the State Accident
Fund to classify any industries subject to this article mentioned or
not mentioned which are insured in the State Accident Fund. And
the commissioners shall have power on or before the first day of
January of each year to reclassify such industries, or oftener, if, in
the opinion of the commissioners, the same should be deemed just
and advantageous; or to create additional classifications with respect
to their respective degrees of hazard and determine the risk of the
different classes, and fix the rate of premium for each class, accord-
ing to the risks of the same sufficiently large to guarantee a work-
men's compensation fund from year to year. It shall be the duty of
the commissioners in determine DETERMINING the rates, in order
to create a fund sufficiently large to guarantee a workmen's compensa-
tion fund from year to year to also reclassify from time to time the
industries or occupations, in order that there may be a flexible adjust-
ment of the rates as the hazard fluctuates, and to use all means in their
power through the rate adjustment to lessen the opportunity for
injuries to the workmen. The classification so determined and the
rates of premium established shall be applicable for such year unless a
reclassification should, in the opinion of the commissioners, necessitate
a change of rate within such year; and based on each one hundred
dollars of the gross annual payroll of each employer in any class;
provided, also that for the purpose of this subtitle, the pay of the
employee partly within and partly without the State shall be deemed
to be such proportion of the total pay of such employee as his service
within the State bears to his service outside the State. The commis-
sioners shall have the power to apply that form of rating system in
the establishment of premiums which, in their judgment, is best
calculated to merit or individually rate the risk most equitably,
[predicted] predicated upon the basis of their individual industrial
accident experience, and to encourage and stimulate accident preven-
tion; and shall develop fixed and equitable rules controlling such