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amendments, to read as follows:

3-802.

(b) Upon application to the Department by the owner of any registered
passenger motor vehicle, accompanied with due proof that the owner holds an
unrevoked and unexpired official amateur radio station license issued by the
Federal Communications Commission, and upon payment of a fee of $5.00 in
addition to any other fees required by this article, the Department shall issue for
the passenger motor vehicle special registration plates upon which shall be
inscribed in letters and numerals not less than three inches high and in strokes of
not less than one-quarter inch in width the official amateur radio call letters of the
applicant as assigned by the Federal Communications Commission in lieu of the
numerals required to be displayed on the registration plates under Part IV.
Provided, however, the registration plates may be displayed only when the vehicle
is [equipped with an amateur radio station and] properly licensed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 622
(House Bill 1304)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 240C-1 and 240D of
Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume
and 1972 Supplement), title "Insurance Code," subtitle "15 Unfair Trade
Practices," to make certain technical corrections and to clarify the language
therein.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 240C-1 and 240D of Article 48A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title
"Insurance Code," subtitle "15 Unfair Trade Practices," be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

240C-1.

(a)  In any case where an insurer is authorized under this article to cancel or
nonrenew or increase the premiums on an automobile liability insurance policy
under which more than one person is insured because of the claim experience or
driving record of one or more but less than all of the persons insured under the
policy, the insurer shall in lieu of cancellation, nonrenewal, or premium increase
offer to continue or renew the insurance, but to exclude from coverage, by name,
the person or persons whose claim experience or driving record would have
justified the cancellation or nonrenewal. The premiums charged on any such policy
excluding a named driver or drivers shall not reflect the claims [,] experience or
driving record of the excluded named driver or drivers.

(b)  With respect to any person excluded from coverage under this section, the
policy may provide that the insurer shall not be liable for damages, losses, or
claims arising out of [this] THE operation or use of the insured motor vehicle,
whether or not such operation or use was with the express or implied permission of