83-33-15 - Penalty. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 83-33-15. Penalty.
 

Any attorney who shall exchange any contracts of insurance of the kind and character specified in this chapter or any attorney or representative of such attorney who shall solicit or negotiate any application for same without the attorney first complying with the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be subjected to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars. For the purpose of organization and upon issuance of permit by the insurance commissioner, powers of attorney may be solicited without license; but no attorney, agent, or other persons shall effect any such contracts of insurance until all the provisions of this chapter shall have been complied with. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. § 5209a1; 1930, § 5298; 1942, § 5812; Laws,  1918, ch. 190.