BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2403

January 1, 1973, unless the policy also affords the minimum
medical, hospital and disability benefits set forth herein;
or unless equivalent medical, hospital, and disability
benefits are provided by a policy issued to the insured by a
nonprofit health service plan or by an authorized insurer
with the policy in each case subject to approval by the
Commissioner. The benefits, or their equivalent, shall
cover the named insured and members of his family residing
in his household (except such persons as may be specifically
excluded in accordance with § 240C-1 of this article)
injured in any motor vehicle accident (including an accident
involving an uninsured motor vehicle or a motor vehicle
whose identity cannot be ascertained), other persons injured
while occupying the insured motor vehicle as a guest or
passenger, or while using it with the express or implied
permission of the named insured (except as provided in §
240C-1 of this article), and pedestrians injured in an
accident in which the insured motor vehicle is involved or
individuals injured in, on, or alighting from any other
vehicle operated by animal or muscular power in an accident
in which an insured vehicle is involved. The minimum
medical, hospital and disability benefits shall include up
to an amount of $2,500, for payment of all 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.

(b) The provisions of this section do not apply to
policies issued, sold or delivered in this State to insure
vehicles as defined in § 11-165 AND 11-105 of the
Transportation Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
THIS SUBSECTION DOES NOT INCLUDE THOSE VEHICLES WHICH ARE

OWNED OR LEASED BY THE UNITED STATES, THIS STATE, OR ANY

POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 29, 1978.

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