1328                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 427

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 194 (d) of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Insurance Code", sub-
title "Surplus Lines" be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

194.

(d) This section does not apply to reinsurance or insurance of
risks referred to in Section 199, nor to insurance of risks of the
State government or any of its political subdivisions.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 427
(Senate Bill 555)

AN ACT to add new Sections 159 to 170, inclusive, to Article 26
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume
and 1971 Supplement), title "Courts," to follow immediately after
Section 158 thereof and to be under the new subtitle "Uniform
Certification of Questions of Law Act," authorizing the Court of
Appeals of Maryland to answer questions of law certified to it
by certain Federal Courts, providing generally for the procedure
for the handling and determination of these certifications, estab-
lishing also a procedure whereby the Court of Appeals or the
Court of Special Appeals may seek a certification of a question
of law from the highest court of another State and relating gen-
erally to the certification of law to and from certain Courts of
this State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 159 to 170, inclusive, be and they are hereby
added to Article 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966
Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Courts," to
follow immediately after Section 158 thereof, to be under the new
subtitle "Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act," and all
to read as follows:

159.

The Court of Appeals may answer questions of law certified to
it by the Supreme Court of the United States, a Court of Appeals
of the United States, or a United States District Court when re-
quested by the certifying court if there is involved in any proceed-
ing before it a question of law of this State which may be deter-
minative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as
to which it appears to the certifying court there is no controlling
precedent in the decisions of the Court of Appeals of this State.