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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="25-402" title_number="25" title_name="Alternative Market Mechanisms" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Property Insurance Availability Act">
  <text>The purposes of this subtitle are:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>to authorize and establish:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>the Joint Insurance Association;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>a program to make essential property insurance available from the Association to qualified applicants with the least possible administrative detail and expense; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>a program to make the homeowner’s insurance that is provided by the Association available to qualified applicants with the least possible administrative detail and expense;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>to encourage the improvement of the condition of properties located in the State;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>to further orderly community development in general;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>to publicize the purposes and procedures of this subtitle so that no one fails to seek assistance from the Association because of ignorance;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>to utilize fully the voluntary insurance market as a source of essential property insurance and homeowner’s insurance; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>to encourage the delivery of essential property insurance, and the homeowner’s insurance that is provided by the Association, at the most reasonable cost possible, provided that insurance pricing by the Association:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>is actuarially self-supporting; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>does not actively compete with insurance pricing in the voluntary insurance market.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
