Chap. 3.—An ACT to authorize and empower domestic insurance companies to
comply with the statutes, ordinances and other laws of States (including the
District of Columbia), territories, and political subdivisions thereof imposing
any license, excise, privilege, premium, occupation or-other fees or taxes, and
to pay such fees and taxes, and to relieve the directors, trustees, officers,
agents and employees of such domestic insurance companies of personal liability
by reason of any such payment or determination not to contest any such
payment. [S. B. 14]

Approved March 27, 1945

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. Section 1. Every domestic insurance company is authorized
and empowered to comply with any statute, ordinance or other law of any
State (including the District of Columbia), territory, or political subdi-
vision thereof imposing any license, excise, privilege, premium, occupa-
tion or other fee or tax and to pay such fee or tax,‘unless prior to such
payment such statute, ordinance or other law shall have been expressly
held invalid by the State court or by the Supreme Court of the United
States, having final appellate jurisdiction in the premises.

Section 2. No director, trustee, officer, agent or employee of any
domestic insurance company shall be subject to any personal liability by
reason of any payment, or determination not to contest payment of any
license, excise, privilege, premium, occupation or other fee or tax to any
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State (including the District of Columbia), territory, or political subdivi-
sion thereof, unless prior to such payment the statute, ordinance or other
law imposing such fee or tax shall have been expressly held invalid by
the State court or by the Supreme Court of the United States, having
final appellate jurisdiction in the premises.

Section 3. This act shall be applicable to acts done and payments
made, whether prior to or subsequent to the passage of this act.

Section 4. Nothing contained in this act shall bé construed as
directly or indirectly limiting, minimizing or interpreting the rights,
powers and duties of insurance companies and of their directors, trustees,
officers, agents and employees, heretofore existing.

2. Anemergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.

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