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55.

(3) WHENEVER IT APPEARS TO THE COMMISSIONER THAT AN
INSURER IS CONDUCTING ITS BUSINESS AND AFFAIRS IN SUCH
MANNER AS TO THREATEN TO RENDER IT INSOLVENT OR IS
CONDUCTING ITS BUSINESS AND AFFAIRS IN A MANNER WHICH
IS HAZARDOUS TO ITS POLICYHOLDERS, CREDITORS OR TO THE
GENERAL PUBLIC OR IS ENGAGED IN ANY ACT, PRACTICE, OR
TRANSACTIONS WHICH WOULD CONSTITUTE GROUND
RENDERING THE INSURER SUBJECT TO CONSERVATION OR
LIQUIDATION PROCEEDINGS AND THAT IRREPARABLE LOSS AND
INJURY TO THE PROPERTY AND BUSINESS OF THE INSURER OR
THE GENERAL PUBLIC HAS OCCURRED OR MAY OCCUR UNLESS
THE COMMISSIONER ACTS IMMEDIATELY, THE COMMISSIONER
MAY, WITHOUT NOTICE, AND BEFORE HEARING ISSUE AND
CAUSE TO BE SERVED UPON SUCH INSURER AN ORDER
REQUIRING SUCH INSURER FORTHWITH TO CEASE AND DESIST
FROM ENGAGING FURTHER IN THE WRITING OF INSURANCE IN
THIS STATE.

(A) AT THE TIME SUCH ORDER IS SERVED, THE COMMISSIONER
SHALL ISSUE AND ALSO SERVE UPON THE INSURER NOTICE OF
HEARING TO BE HEARD AT A TIME AND PLACE FIXED THEREIN
WHICH SHALL BE NOT MORE THAN FIVE (5) DAYS AFTER THE
DATE OF THE ORDER, UNLESS WAIVED BY THE COMPANY, IN
WHICH CASE THE HEARING MUST BE HELD WITHIN THIRTY (30)
DAYS AFTER SERVICE.

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

Approved May 24, 1973.

CHAPTER 786
(House Bill 548)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 91 of Article 35 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Evidence,"
subtitle "Speed of Motor Vehicles," eliminating the requirement of notifying, by
highway markings, the motorist of the presence of radio-micro wave devices
used to record the speed of motor vehicles.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 91 of Article 35 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume), title "Evidence," subtitle "Speed of Motor Vehicles,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

91.

In any legal proceeding of any nature the speed of a motor vehicle may be
proved by evidence of a test made upon such vehicle with any device designed to
measure and indicate or record the speed of a moving object by means of
radio-micro waves. [Such evidence shall not be introduced in any proceedings to
enforce motor vehicle speed limits unless the highway or road on which such device