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Every such policy shall contain a provision to the effect that the insolvency
or bankruptcy of the employer shall not relieve the insurance carrier from
the payment of compensation for injuries or death sustained by an employe
during the life of such policy.

Every contract or agreement of an employer the purpose of which is to
indemnify him from loss or damage on account of the injury of an employee
by accidental means, or on account of the negligence of such employer or
his officer, agent or servant, if engaged in extra-hazardous employment, shall
be absolutely void unless it shall also cover liability for the payment of the
compensation provided for by this Article.

No contract or insurance issued by a stock company or mutual association
against liability arising under this Article shall be cancelled within the time
limited in such contract for its expiration until at least ten days after notice
of intention to cancel such contract, on a date specified in such notice, shall
be filed in the office of the Commission and also served on the employer.
Such notice shall be served on the employer by delivering it to him or by
sending it by mail, by registered letter, addressed to the employer at his or
its last known place of residence; provided, that if the employer be a partner-
ship, then such notice may be so given to any one of the partners, and if the
employer be a corporation, then the notice may be given to any agent or
officer of the corporation upon whom legal process may be served.

An. Code, sec. 31. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 31.

31. Nothing herein shall affect any existing contract of policy of em-
ployer's liability insurance or the liability of any mutual insurance asso-
ciation, or any arrangement now existing between employers and employes,
providing for the payment to such employes, their families, dependents or
representatives of sick, accident or death benefits in addition to the com-
pensation provided for by this Article; but liability for the compensation
specified in this Article shall not be reduced or affected by any insurance,
contribution or other benefit whatsoever, due to or received by the person
entitled to such compensation, and the person so entitled shall, irrespective
of any such insurance or other contract, have the right to recover the com-
pensation directly from the employer.

This section referred to in construing sec. 36—see notes thereto. Scott v. Inde-
pendent Ice Co., 135 Md. 345.

Application of Article; Extra-Hazardous Employments.

An. Code, sec. 32. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 32. 1916, ch. 597, sec. 32. 1920, ch. 456, sec. 32.

1924, ch. 583, sec. 32.

32. Compensation provided for in this Article shall be payable for
injuries sustained or death incurred by employees engaged in the following
extra-hazardous employments:

(1) The operation, including construction and repair, of railways oper-
ated by steam, electric or other motive power, street railways and incline
railways, but not in their construction when constructed by any person other
than the company which owns or operates the railways, including work of
express, sleeping, parlor and dining car employees on railway trains.