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(iv) [As a general scheme or plot without] WITHOUT just cause [[compels
claimants to accept less than the amount due them or to bring suit against it to
secure full payment thereof OR]] [[IN A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF
CASES]] UNREASONABLY REFUSES OR DELAYS PAYMENT [[OF
CLAIMS]] TO CLAIMANTS OF THE AMOUNT DUE THEM.

(v) Refuses to be examined or to produce its accounts, records and files for
examination by the Commissioner when required; or refuses to furnish such other
additional information as the Commissioner may deem advisable to consider the
application for renewal of such insurer's certificate of authority.

(vi) Fails to pay any final judgment rendered against it in Maryland within
thirty (30) days after such judgment becomes final.

(vii) Is affiliated with and under the same general management or interlocking
directorate or ownership as another insurer which transacts direct insurance in
Maryland without having a certificate of authority therefor, except as permitted to
a surplus-line insurer under subtitle 13.

(viii) Is found by the Commissioner to have participated either with or without
the knowledge of an agent or broker in the selling of motor vehicle insurance
without any bona fide intention to sell such insurance, as evidenced by a persistent
pattern of filing of certificates of insurance together with or closely followed by
cancellation notices for such insurance under the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment
Fund Law.

(ix) Has had its certificate of authority revoked or suspended by the insurance
regulatory agency or department of any other state.

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

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 419
(Senate Bill 610)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 148 of Article 56 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses,"
subtitle "Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax," to provide for the identification of the
owner or lessee of certain tank trucks, truck tractors, semi-trailers or trailers on
such vehicles under the motor vehicle fuel tax laws of this State; and
redesignating the portions of this section.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 148 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Motor Vehicle
Fuel Tax," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

148.

(A) Every railroad company, every street, suburban or interurban railroad
company, every pipe line company, every water transportation company, and every
common carrier transporting motor fuel, either in interstate or intrastate