Ch. 621                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND

Approved May 25, 1989.

CHAPTER 621

(Senate Bill 825)

AN ACT concerning

Workers' Compensation - Owner Operators of Motor
Vehicles and Motor Carriers

FOR the purpose of exempting from workers' compensation coverage
certain owner operators of motor vehicles who enter into
certain contracts with motor carriers; requiring certain
owner operators of motor vehicles to provide proof of
certain insurance as may be required by the workers'
compensation law; exempting certain motor carriers from
certain claims of employees of certain owner operators of
motor vehicles; providing that a motor carrier shall be
deemed a principal contractor and an owner operator shall be
deemed a subcontractor and subject to a certain section; and
generally relating to the workers' compensation liability of
certain owner operators of motor vehicles who enter into
certain contracts with motor carriers.

BY adding to

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 21(c)(8)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 62

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

21.

(c) The following employees are exempt from the coverage of
this Act:

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