HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3651

CHAPTER 778

(House Bill 1448)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance Agents and Brokers - Licensing and Qualifications

FOR the purpose of altering the procedures by which insurance
agents and brokers are certified to conduct business;
altering certain categories of insurance under which agents
and brokers may conduct business; altering certain fee
schedules; altering the broker's bond; providing certain
definitions and certain qualifications for insurance agents
and brokers; altering the methods for issuing certificates
of qualification to insurance agents and brokers; providing
for payment of certain fees or bonds by certain insurance
agents and brokers and certain exemptions; providing for
certain temporary certificates of qualification to be issued
in certain circumstances; and generally relating to the
qualifying of insurance agents and brokers.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 10, 40(1), 41(5) through (11), 59(1) through (3),
166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175(2), (3),
(14), and (16), 175A, 175B, 176(a), (b), (c)(1),
(d), and (e), 177(2) and (3), 178(2) and (3),
181(d), (e), (f), and (1), 182(c) and (h), 188, 189,
196, 240B(a), 243B(d)(l), 243L(1), 344A, 344C, 344D,
344E, 344F, 344G(l)(b) and (p) and (2), 436J, 437-0,
and 470(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 41(17), 175(17), 176(f) and (g), 344G(l)(q)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 48A - Insurance Code

10.

No county or city of this State shall require that any
insurer, or any insurance agent, broker, adjuster, public