Chap. 26.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 1, and section
13 of chapter 2 of an act, entitled an act concerning the bureau of insu-
rance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and
fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and im-
posing penalties for its violation, approved March 9, 1906, and acts
amendatory thereof. (S. B. 18)

Approved February 5, 1915. .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty of chapter one, and section thirteen of chapter two of an act
entitled an act concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guar-
anty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies
associations, societies and orders, and imposing penalties for its vio-
lation, approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and acts amend.
atory thereof, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 30. All companies of the classes mentioned in this chapter
foreign, alien, or domestic, shall, on or before the first day of Marck
in each year, make report to the bureau of insurance upon forms to be
furnished by the commissioner of insurance, of the amount of their
gross premiums, assessments or dues for the preceding calendar year
and such other information as the bureau of insurance may require,
in order to make such assessment.

Sec. 13. Every such insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity,
security, or other like company, whether foreign, alien or domestic,
shall obtain annually from the commissioner of insurance a renewal
of its license or certificate of authority to transact business in this State,
which shall not be issued unless and until every such insurance com-
pany shall have paid all taxes, fees and charges imposed by law; pro-
vided, that if the commissioner of insurance fails or refuses to renew
the license of any such company, then such company can as a matter
of right appeal from such decision to the State corporation commission
for a renewal of its license, and such appeal shall be informal and heard
at once.