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reasonable expenses arising from the accident and
incurred within three years from the date thereof for
necessary medical, surgical, x-ray and dental services,
including prosthetic devices, and necessary ambulance,
hospital, professional nursing and funeral services; and
in the case of an income producer, payment of benefits
for loss of income as the result of the accident; and
where the person injured in the accident was not an
income or wage producer at the time of the accident,
payments of benefits must be made in reimbursement of
necessary and reasonable expenses incurred for essential
services ordinarily performed by the injured person for
care and maintenance of the family or family household.
The insurer providing loss of income benefits may
require, as a condition of receiving such benefits that
the injured person furnish the insurer reasonable medical
proof of his injury causing loss of income.

543.

(b)    As to any person injured in an accident while
occupying a motor vehicle for which the coverage required
by § 53 9 of this article [are] IS in effect, and as to
any person injured [as a pedestrian by such a motor
vehicle] BY SUCH A MOTOR VEHICLE AS A PEDESTRIAN OR WHILE
IN, ON, OR ALIGHTING FROM ANY OTHER VEHICLE [[OPERATED]]
POWERED BY ANIMAL OR MUSCULAR POWER OR ON OR ALIGHTED
FROM AN ANIMAL, the benefits shall be payable by the
insurer of the motor vehicle.

(c)    As to any person insured under a policy
providing the coverage required by §§ 539 and 541 of this
article who is injured in an accident while [occuping]
OCCUPYING A MOTOR VEHICLE FOR WHICH THE COVERAGE REQUIRED
BY SECTIONS 539 AND 541 IS NOT IN EFFECT, or struck as a
pedestrian OR INJURED WHILE IN, ON, OR ALIGHTING FROM ANY
OTHER VEHICLE [[OPERATED]] POWERED BY ANIMAL OR MUSCULAR
POWER OR ON OR ALIGHTING FROM AS ANIMAL by a motor
vehicle for which [such coverage] THE COVERAGE REQUIRED
BY SECTIONS 539 AND 541 is not in effect, the benefits
shall be payable by the injured party's insurer providing
such coverage; provided, however, that such benefits
shall be reduced to the extent of any medical or
disability benefits coverage applicable to the motor
vehicle and collectable from the insurer of such motor
vehicle.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.