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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:

Article 48A - Insurance Code

240AA.

(F) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL MAKE A DETERMINATION FROM
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE NOTICE WHETHER THE PROTEST
HAS MERIT AND, UPON SUCH A FINDING, SHALL EITHER DISMISS THE
PROTEST OR DISALLOW THE ACTION OF THE INSURER AND SHALL
PROMPTLY NOTIFY THE INSURER AND THE INSURED IN WRITING OF
HIS ACTION. THE AGGRIEVED PARTY, WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER
RECEIPT OF THE COMMISSIONER'S NOTICE OF ACTION, MAY REQUEST
A HEARING. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CONDUCT A HEARING WITHIN
A REASONABLE TIME AFTER THE REQUEST AND SHALL GIVE NOT LESS
THAN 10 DAYS WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE
HEARING. AT THE HEARING THE INSURER HAS THE BURDEN OF
PROVING ITS PROPOSED ACTION TO BE JUSTIFIED, AND, IN DOING
SO, MAY RELY ONLY UPON THE REASONS SET FORTH IN ITS NOTICE
TO THE INSURED.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 287

(Senate Bill 1094)'

AN ACT concerning

State Lottery - Claim Period

FOR the purpose of reducing the claim period for redeeming
winning tickets in the Maryland State Lottery; and
conforming other references to this claim period.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88D - State Lottery

Section 16

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 88D - State Lottery