97-23-31 - Insurance; acting as agent for company not complying with law. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-23-31. Insurance; acting as agent for company not complying with law.
 

Any person who shall do or perform any of the acts or things mentioned in the laws governing insurance companies, the doing or performing of which is there provided, shall constitute such person the agent of the company, for any insurance company not organized under or incorporated by the laws of this state, without such company having first complied with the requirements of the laws of this state or having received the certificate of authority from the commissioner of insurance, as required by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, be fined five hundred dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding twelve months, or by either; but the penalties of this section shall not apply to an adjuster of a loss, if the insurance could not have been obtained from a company which had complied with the laws of this state, or if the insurance was given at a rate fully one-half of one per centum less than that charged by such companies. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 35, art. 63; 1871, § 2453; 1880, § 1086; 1892, § 1170; 1906, § 1248; Hemingway's 1917, § 978; 1930, § 1006; 1942, § 2236.