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(i) 1.5% from the 31st day through the 60th day;

(ii) 2% from the 61st day through the 120th day; and

(iii) 2.5% after the 120th day.

(2) The interest paid under this subsection shall be included in any late
reimbursement without the necessity for the person that filed the original claim to
make an additional claim for that interest.

(g) An insurer, nonprofit health service plan, or health maintenance
organization that violates a provision of this section is subject to:

(1)     a fine not exceeding $500 for each violation that is arbitrary and
capricious, based on all available information; and

(2)     the penalties prescribed under § 4-113(d) of this article for violations
committed with a frequency that indicates a general business practice.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 2004.

Approved April 27, 2004.

CHAPTER 156

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(House Bill 187)

AN ACT concerning

Anne Arundel County - Highways - Solicitation of Money or Donations from
Occupants of Vehicles - County Licensing Program Authorized

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Anne Arundel County Council to enact, by
ordinance, a certain licensing program for individuals who are of a certain age or
older and certain organizations that wish to solicit money or donations from the
occupants of vehicles by standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection
in Anne Arundel County; providing that the licensing program, if enacted, may
impose a fee for the license in an amount not to exceed the county's cost to
administer the licensing program and may provide for an exemption for an
individual who is unable to pay the fee and any other exemption from the fee
that the county council considers appropriate or necessary; requiring an
ordinance that imposes a fee under this Act on an applicant that is a qualified
organization organized on a national or statewide basis and having more than
one county or local chapter in the State to impose one fee to be paid by the
national or statewide organization to cover all of the county or local chapters in
the State; providing that if the county council enacts a licensing program
authorized by this Act, an individual or organization that decides not to seek to
become licensed under the program or that is denied a license under the
program is prohibited from standing in a roadway, median divider, or

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