CHAPTER 236

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-750 of the Code of Virginia, re-
lating to the qualifications for licensing as real estate brokers and
salesmen.

[H 108]
Approved March 6, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That § 54-750 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 54-750. A license shall be granted only to persons who bear a good
reputation for honesty, truthfulness and fair dealing and are competent to
transact the business of a real estate broker or a real estate salesman
in such manner as to safeguard the interests of the public. No license shall
be issued hereunder to any person:

(1) Who is unable to read, write and understand the English
language;

(2) Whose application for a license as a real estate broker or real
estate salesman has within six months prior to the date of his application
hereunder been rejected in Virginia, in any other state or in the District
of Columbia; *

(3) Whose license as a real estate broker or real estate salesman has
within one year prior to the date of his application hereunder been re-
voked in Virginia, in any other state or in the District of Columbia;

(4) Who is not a citizen of the United States; or

Who, if an alien, has not filed his intention as provided by law to
become a citizen;

(5) Who has been convicted, within the past five years, in a court
of competent jurisdiction of this or any other state, or of the District of
Columbia, or of the United States, of forgery, embezzlement, obtaining
money under false pretenses, extortion, conspiracy to defraud, bribery, or
other like offense or offenses, or plead guilty or nolo contendere to any
of such offenses, there being no appeal pending therefrom or the time
therefor having elapsed.

Nor shall any license as a real estate broker be issued hereunder to any
person who has not attained the age of twenty-one years.