Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 31 - MARYLAND INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
Subtitle 01 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 31.01.01 - General
Section 31.01.01.03 - Procedure
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 19, September 20, 2024
A. Each regulation made, amended, altered, or modified shall be deemed to contain or be subject to the provisions of this regulation, whether or not it is incorporated by reference or by express language.
B. References. Any reference to articles not otherwise designated means articles of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, as of the date of effectiveness of the subject regulation. Any reference to the Article or the Insurance Article or to an individual article not otherwise designated means Insurance Article, Annotated Code of Maryland. Any Code section reference not otherwise designated means the section of the Insurance Article so numbered. Any section, subsection, paragraph, or subparagraph reference not designated as a Code section and not otherwise designated means the section, subsection, paragraph, or subparagraph so numbered of the regulation in which the reference appears.
C. Definitions.
D. Interpretation. If there is an ambiguity in a regulation which permits an interpretation or application to a person or circumstance in conflict with the Insurance Article, the ambiguity shall be resolved so as to be in conformity with the Insurance Article.
E. Penalties. In addition to any other penalty provided, willful violation of any regulation issued under the provisions of Insurance Article, § 2-109, Annotated Code of Maryland, shall subject the violator to such penalties as may be applicable under the Insurance Article for violation of the provision to which the regulation relates. A penalties section reference list is attached as Regulation .05 of this chapter but it should not be construed to represent necessarily a complete listing of all penalties provided in the Insurance Article.
F. Severability. If any provision of any regulation or the application of the regulation to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the regulation which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and for this purpose the provisions of every regulation are declared to be separable.
G. Gender and Number. The use of a masculine form in any regulation is deemed to include the feminine form unless the contrary is explicitly stated or clearly implied. The use of the singular of any word in any regulation is deemed to include the plural unless the contrary is explicitly stated or clearly implied.
H. "Includes" or "including" means, unless the context requires otherwise, includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation.