3308

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 717

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 the
said fine not required for payment of an award as herein provided
shall be transferred to the [general treasury] GENERAL FUND OF
THE STATE. 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.

(d)  Any employer, subject to the provisions of this
article, who fails or refuses to insure voluntarily the payment
of the compensation specified in this article to his employees
and their dependents through one of the methods of assurance of
payment, mentioned in the second paragraph of this section, or
fails to furnish satisfactory proof to the Commission of his
financial ability to pay such compensation himself, or give bond
or deposit securities as aforesaid, shall at any time after
November 1st, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be compelled by the
Commission to insure to his employees and their dependents the
payment of the compensation specified in this article, by paying
to the State Treasurer for the use and benefit of the State
Accident Fund, hereinafter authorized to be established, the
premium or taxes levied and published by the State Accident Fund
for the group of employments, industries or works to which said
employer belongs. And any such employer who fails or refuses to
so insure within ten days, after being ordered by the Commission
to do so, shall be liable to the State in an amount equal to the
premium or taxes required of him for six months' insurance in the
State Accident Fund, as a penalty, which, together with his