Chap. 293.—An ACT to provide for service of process, or notice, in proceedings
before, and render binding the actions of, the State Corporation Commission,
in its administration of the provisions of Chapter 433, Acts of the General
Assembly, 1928, pertaining to rates, etc., of fire insurance inderwriters doing
business in Virginia, as same has been, or shall be, amended, and otherwise
pertaining to procedure in the administration of said Act. [H B 293]

Approved March 28, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That ser-
vice of process, or notice, in any proceeding before the: State Corpora-
tion Commission, under the provisions of chapter four hundred and
thirty-three, Acts of the General Assembly, nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, as same has been, or shall be, amended, may be made
upon the manager, or an assistant manager, of the Virginia insurance
rating bureau, at its principal office in the City of Richmond, and
such process, or notice, shall be valid and binding upon such rating
bureau, and upon all member companies thereof. Any and every
order of the Commission pertaining to rates, premium charges,
schedules, rating methods, rules, by-laws, agreements, and/or regula-
tions of the Virginia insurance rating bureau shall l»e binding upon
the rating bureau and the member companies th:2reof, except as
otherwise provided by law or by such or any order of the Commission,
upon the entry thereof when in a pending proceeding. or by service of
copy upon, or delivery of an attested copy to, the manager, or an
assistant manager, of the rating bureau at its principal office in the
City of Richmond when entered, according to law, ctherwise than in
a pending proceeding.

All filings of rates, premium charges, schedules, rating methods,
rules, by-laws, agreements, and/or regulations which are made by
the Virginia insurance rating bureau, in pursuance of law, for which
approval of the State Corporation Commission is required or re-
quested, except as otherwise indicated in said filiny and/or as pro-
vided in any order of the Commission to the contrary, shall be pre-
sumed and taken, unless and until the contrary shall be made to
appear of record to or before the Commission, to be, ind to have been,
filed on behalf of all member companies.

Any and every fire insurance company, upon obtaining a license
to write insurance in Virginia and upon becoming a member of the
rating bureau as required by law, during the pendence of any such pro-
ceeding, shall be subject to all actions of the Commission, interlocu-
tory and final, in such proceeding, without necessity of any further
service of process or notice, and without necessity of formal inter-
vention, and shall be bound by and conform to such rates, premium
charges, schedules, rating methods, rules, by-laws, agreements, and
regulations of the rating bureau which shall be approved or prescribed
in any such pending proceeding and/or which are then in effect and
have been approved by any applicable order of the State Corporation
Commission theretofore entered of record according to law, unless and
until otherwise permitted, authorized, or directed, by the Commission
according to law.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to have, nor shall
have, the effect of modifying or affecting the necessity for, or the pro-
cedure relative to, publication of notice of hearings when the interests
of the general public, inclusive of fire insurance underwriters operating
in this State, are involved.