# COMAR Title 11 — Department of Transportation

## Subtitle 18 — Motor Vehicle Administration — Financial Responsibility Requirements

### Chapter 02 — Self-Insurers

#### Regulation .08 Self-Insurance Card.

*COMAR 11.18.02.08*

A. For the purposes of this regulation, self-insurers include:

  (1) The State Government;

  (2) Class A self-insurers;

  (3) Class B self-insurers;

  (4) Class C self-insurers; and

  (5) Class D self-insurers.

B. Upon approval in the program, or a change in the self-insurer’s third-party administrator or third party-adjuster, each self-insurer shall provide the Administration the self-insurer’s third-party administrator’s or third-party adjuster’s:

  (1) Name;

  (2) Address; and

  (3) Telephone number.

C. The Administration shall provide to self-insurers, in a format determined by the Administration, self-insurance certification for each vehicle upon:

  (1) Initial registration into the program;

  (2) Renewal; and

  (3) Additions to the self-insurer’s vehicle fleet.

D. The self-insurer’s insurance card shall include the self-insurer’s:

  (1) Name;

  (2) Address;

  (3) Certificate number;

  (4) Self-insurer’s third-party administrator’s or third-party adjuster’s:

    (a) Name;

    (b) Address;

    (c) Telephone number;

  (5) Vehicle identification number; and

  (6) Any other relevant information.

E. Each self-insurer shall maintain, in each self-insured vehicle:

  (1) A self-insurance card; or

  (2) Evidence of self-insurance containing the information required by §D of this regulation, in a format approved by the Administration.

F. Each self-insurer shall have a 60-day grace period for newly acquired vehicles or vehicles for which there has been a change of self-insurer, allowing time for the Administration to provide the self-insurance card. During that time, for proof of self-insurance, the self-insurers shall maintain a copy of the self-insurer’s certificate in the vehicle.