WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 645

certificate of authority to do business issued by the Workmen's
Compensation Commission.

[(vi)] (6) For the purposes of workmen's
compensation, self-insurers and groups of counties, groups of
municipalities, or groups composed of both counties and
municipalities which are self-insured pursuant to this paragraph
are not subject to the provisions of Article 48A of the Code.

[(vii)](7) For the purposes of this
subsection, with the approval of its county governing body a
county board of education shall be considered a county or
municipality.

[(viii)](8) A self-insurance mechanism

established by a county government for workmen's compensation
insurance coverage under this section may include those units of
that county's government that are established or funded by the
county government, provided that the commission has given prior
approval for the inclusion or addition of the unit.

(b) Any employer, subject to the provisions of this
article, who, after November 1st, nineteen hundred and fourteen,
fails or refuses to submit to said Commission, as provided in the
next succeeding paragraphs, the method he desires to adopt for
assuring compensation REQUIRED BY THIS ARTICLE, or who shall fail
to secure insurance by one of such methods or who fails to pay
compensation to an injured employee, or in the case of death, his
dependents, in accordance with the award of the Commission, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine of not
less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars or by
imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine or
imprisonment; and in any case where the employer is a
corporation, the officer of the corporation having responsibility
for the general management of the corporation in the State shall
be liable to 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 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,]
REQUIRED BY THIS ARTICLE, 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] § 16 OF
THIS ARTICLE for assuring the payment of compensation to his

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