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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 115

THIS ARTICLE MAY DEDICATE AND EXPEND UP TO 50 PERCENT OF THE
REVENUES RECEIVED FROM THE TAX IN EACH FISCAL YEAR FOR THE
PAYMENT OF DEBTS AND COSTS INCURRED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act

shall take effect June 1, 1978.

Approved April 11, 1978.

CHAPTER 116

(House Bill 291)

AN ACT concerning

Workmen's Compensation — Insurers

FOR the purpose of enabling the Workmen's Compensation
Commission to assess certain insurers failing to comply
with certain certification of insurance requirements
subject to certain conditions; and making the
assessment payable to the Uninsured Employers Fund.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 — Workmen's Compensation

Section 91 (b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1964 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 101 — Workmen's Compensation

91.

(b) (1) For the purpose of establishing and
maintaining this fund, the Commission, upon rendering a
decision with respect to any claim for compensation against
ax. uninsured employer as defined in § 102 of this article
shall impose an assessment in the sum of one hundred fifty
dollars ($150.00) against the employer and direct its
payment into the fund in connection with each such claim
wherein injury shall have occurred on or after the first day
of January, 1966, or in death cases, where death is the
--suit of an injury occurring on or after said date. The
Commission shall also impose an additional assessment of
fifteen per centum 15%) of the award or awards made in each
such claim, such additional assessment not to exceed,
however, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars