Marvin Mandel, Governor                         821

Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume), title "Vehicle Laws," subtitle
"Rules of The Road," subheading "Miscellaneous Rules," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

11-1111.

(a)    No person shall throw or deposit upon any highway any
glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or any other substance
likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon such highway.

(b)    Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown,
upon any highway any destructive, hazardous, or injurious material
shall immediately remove it or cause it to be removed.

(c)    Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a
highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance
dropped upon the highway from the vehicle or vehicles.

(d)    No person shall throw, dump, or deposit any trash, junk, or
other refuse upon any highway.

(e)    If this section is violated by an occupant of a vehicle which
has two or more occupants and it cannot be determined which
occupant is the violator, the owner of the vehicle, if present, shall be
presumed to be responsible for the violation; in the absence of the
owner of the vehicle, the operator of the vehicle shall be presumed
to be responsible for the violation.

(f)    A violation of this section [shall [not] may be deemed or
treated as a moving violation under Section 6-402 of this article.

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

Approved May 5, 1972.

CHAPTER 263
(House Bill 132)

AN ACT to add new Section 481½ to Article 48A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1971 Supplement), title "Insurance Code,"
subtitle "Casualty Insurance," to follow immediately after Section
481 thereof, to prohibit any insurance company licensed in Mary-
land from issuing a policy or contract of liability insurance con-
taining medical expense coverage to the owner or occupant of an
individual residential dwelling unit unless the policy or contract
contains a provision that the payment of all reasonable medical
expenses incurred for bodily injury caused by accident to the

insured or any other person coming within the provisions thereof

shall be made by the insurance company for at least three years
from the date of injury HOMEOWNER'S POLICY OR CON-
TRACT OF LIABILITY INSURANCE CONTAINING MEDI-
CAL PAYMENT COVERAGE, UNLESS THAT PROVISION
PROVIDES THAT THE INSURER SHALL PAY ALL REA-
SONABLE MEDICAL EXPENSES INCURRED FOR BODILY
INJURY CAUSED BY ACCIDENT TO THE PERSON COMING
WITHIN THE PROVISIONS THEREOF WITHIN THREE
YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE ACCIDENT.