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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 31.03.03.02" title_num="31" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="03" heading="General Requirements.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Premium Account. An insurance producer that does not make prompt remittance of a carrier or insured’s premium shall maintain such premium in one or more premium accounts, which shall be separate from any operating accounts or personal accounts.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Commingling of Premium.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>An insurance producer acting as such in this State may not commingle any premium account with any operating account or personal account.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>An insurance producer acting as such in this State may:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Make voluntary deposits into the insurance producer’s premium account.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Unless prohibited by the carrier, or by Regulation .04 of this chapter, commingle a single carrier’s premium with the premium of one or more other carriers into one or more premium accounts.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Withdrawals.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Withdrawals from a premium account may not be made other than for the following purposes:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Payment of premiums to carriers.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Transfer to an operating account of bank interest, if the carrier has consented to it in writing.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Transfer to an operating account of commissions either actual or average. If average commissions are used, the insurance producer shall maintain on file in the insurance producer's office at all times a letter from each carrier stating the percentage of the average commission.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Withdrawal of voluntary deposits.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Payment of return deposits to insureds.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Payment of return premiums to insureds in the ordinary course of business when a written agreement with the carrier authorizing this practice exists.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A withdrawal may not be made if the balance remaining in the premium account thereafter is less than aggregate net premiums, return premiums, and deposits received but not remitted.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Deposit of a premium in a premium account may not be construed as a commingling of the net premium and of the commission portion of the premium.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>