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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="9-410" title_number="9" title_name="Impaired Entities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Corporation Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Corporation shall submit to the Commissioner a plan of operation and any amendments necessary or suitable to it to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the Corporation.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>The plan of operation and any amendments to it take effect when approved in writing by the Commissioner.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Unless disapproved by the Commissioner within 30 days after submission, a plan of operation and any amendments to the plan shall be deemed approved on the 31st day after the date on which the plan was submitted.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>If the Corporation fails to submit suitable amendments to the plan of operation, the Commissioner, after notice and hearing, shall adopt reasonable regulations as necessary or advisable to carry out this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Regulations adopted under this paragraph shall continue in effect until modified by the Commissioner or superseded by an amendment to the plan of operation submitted by the Corporation and approved by the Commissioner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each member insurer shall comply with the plan of operation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The plan of operation shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>establish procedures for handling the assets of the Corporation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>establish the amounts to be reimbursed and the method of reimbursing members of the Board of Directors under § 9–406 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>establish regular places and times for meetings of the Board of Directors;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>establish procedures for keeping records of the financial transactions of the Corporation, its agents, and the Board of Directors;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>establish procedures for choosing the Board of Directors and submitting the choices to the Commissioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>establish any additional procedures for assessments under § 9–409 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>contain any additional provisions necessary or proper to perform the powers and duties of the Corporation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The plan of operation may provide that any or all of the powers and duties of the Corporation, except those under §§ 9–408(3) and 9–409 of this subtitle, may be delegated to a person that performs or will perform functions similar to those of the Corporation or its equivalent in two or more states.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person to which powers and duties are delegated under the plan of operation shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>reimbursed for any payments made on behalf of the Corporation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>paid for its performance of the functions of the Corporation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A delegation under this subsection may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>take effect only with the approval of the Board of Directors and Commissioner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be made only to a person that extends protection not substantially less favorable and effective than that provided by this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
