MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1767

compensation, or who shall fail to secure insurance by
one of such methods or Mho fails to pay compensation to
an injured employee, or in the case of death, his
dependents, in accordance with the award of the
Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred nor
more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for
not more than one year, or by both such fine or
imprisonment; and in any case where the employer is a
corporation, the officer of the corporation having
responsibility for the general management of the
corporation in the state shall be liable to such fine and
imprisonment as herein provided. Any fine levied
against any employer failing or refusing to secure
insurance as required by this article shall be paid into
the State treasury and credited to the Commission, and be
used for the payment, in whole or in part, of any award
made against said employer by the Commission. All
disbursements shall be made in the same manner as other
monies of the Commission are disbursed. Any part of
said fine not required for payment of an award as herein
provided shall be transferred to the general treasury.
The court may remit any such penalty only if the employer
in default assures the compensation as provided in the
section, and has paid or secured to be paid any
compensation or other benefits under this article which
may have been awarded against him.

(c)    Any such employer who may wish to adopt any
one of the methods mentioned in the preceding paragraphs
for assuring the payment of compensation to his employees
and their dependents, shall first submit to the Workmen's
Compensation Commission the method he wishes to adopt.
The said Commission may approve or reject the method
proposed. If rejected, the employer may submit another
method authorized under this article. The said
Commission may from time to time revise or alter its
decision approving the election of an employer to adopt
any of the methods of assuring payment of the
compensation as provided for in this article, if such
action is reasonably necessary to secure and safeguard
such payments to employees or for the diminishing and
prevention of accidents. Any action of the Commission
for the purpose of diminishing or preventing accidents
shall not apply to public service corporations under the
jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission. Any
decision of said Commission under this section or § 15 of
this article may be reviewed in the circuit court for the
county in which the employer may reside or in any of the
common law courts of Baltimore City, if the employer
resides in Baltimore City.

(d)    Any employer, subject to the provisions of
this article, who fails or refuses to insure voluntarily