PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 352

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 233A of Article 48A - Insurance Code of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (as enacted by Section 7 of Chapter 538 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1993) be repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s) 6-201 through
6-207 and the subtitle "Subtitle 2. Insurance Fraud Division" of Article - State
Government of the Annotated Code of Maryland (as enacted by Section 7 of Chapter 538
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1993) be repealed.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article 48A - Insurance Code

14A.

(a) The Commissioner shall establish divisions or sections within the
Administration, along the following lines of responsibility:

(1)     Life and health insurance;

(2)     Property and casualty INSURANCE;

(3)     Audit and examination;

(4)     Insurance professions; [and]

(5)     Consumer affairs; AND

(6)     INSURANCE FRAUD.
17.

(1)     The Commissioner shall appoint or employ an actuary and may appoint other
assistants, to perform actuarial duties of the Department, to take charge of or assist in the
examination of insurers, and to perform other duties as may be assigned by the
Commissioner.

(2)     The Commissioner shall appoint or employ a chief examiner and may appoint
other assistant examiners to conduct or assist in examinations of insurers and others
provided for under this article.

(3)     The Commissioner shall appoint an auditor and examiner for the
Administration, whose duties it shall be to examine and audit the annual statements of all
authorized insurers, the books, accounts and affairs of the Department, and such other
auditing as the Commissioner may direct.

(4)     The Commissioner may appoint employees to head divisions or sections
established under [§ 15] § 14(A) § 14A of this article or for such special purposes as [he]
THE COMMISSIONER may designate.

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