Chap. 51.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of Chapter 293 of the Acts
of 1942, approved March 30, 1942, relating to examination of applicants for
licenses and certificates of qualification as insurance agents and solicitors.

Approved February 22, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That section five of chapter two hundred ninety-three of the Acts
of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-two, approved March
thirtieth, nineteen hundred forty-two, be amended and re-enacted, as fol-
OWS:

Section '5. Any person who held a certificate of registration or license
as an insurance agent for any fire, casualty, or surety. insurance company
or a certificate of registration or license as an insurance solicitor to solicit
fire, casualty, or surety business for any insurance agent or agency, dur-
ing any of the license years beginning July fifteenth, nineteen hundred
thirty-nine, and thereafter, and who returns from the armed forces after
service during the national emergency, shall, upon application to the
Commission on forms prescribed by it, within two years from the date of
his honorable discharge, be entitled to and shall receive a certificate of
qualification without being required to take the written examination or
to comply with the other requirements of this act, unless any certificate
of registration or license as agent or solicitor so formerly held by him has
been revoked or his application therefor has been refused under and in
accordance with the provisions of section forty-two hundred thirty-five
or section forty-two hundred thirty-five-b of the Code; except that any
such former licensee who had not theretofore paid the fee provided for
in section six of this act shall be required to pay it. |

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.