Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 83 of an act entitled “an act
to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and
to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions
as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,” approved April 16, 1903, re-
lating to insurance brokers.

Approved May 14, 1903.

‘1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eighty-three of an act entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support of
the government and publie free schools, and to pay the interest on the
public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by
section one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,” approved April
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, relating to insurance brokers, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$83. No person shall, without a license, act as insurance broker. Every
person who shall solicit for compensation, directly or indirectly, to be de-
rived therefrom any fire, marine, life, or other insurance, either on ac-
count of any person desiring to effect any such insurance, or on account
of anv insurance company, except the duly authorized agent (or a clerk
actually emploved in his office) of any insurance company licensed to do
business in this State, shall be deemed an insurance broker. Any insur-
ance agent (or a clerk actually employed in his office) who shall solicit,
directly or indirectly, any fire, marine, life, or other insurance, either on
account of any person desiring to effect any such insurance, or on ac-
count of anv insurance company licensed to do business in ‘this State,
other than for the insurance company or companies for which he is the
duly authorized agent, shall be deemed an insurance broker. Any person
acting as insurance broker without a license shall pay a fine of not less
than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense.

And any person or firm who shall fill up, sign, or deliver a policy or cer-
tifieate of insurance for a corporation or association or persons not
licensed to do an insurance business in this State by a legallv authorized
agent, shall be considered an agent of such corporation, or person, or asso-~
ciation, and such person, corporation, or association shall be liable for all
licenses, taxes, and penalties as if represented by a legally appointed
agent. No person licensed as an insurance broker shall be authorized
under his license to place any insurance in a company or association, or
with a firm or person not licensed to do an insurance business in this
Nate. ‘
This act shall be in force from its passage.