Chapter 11. To amend the Code of Law for the District of Columbia regarding insurance
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CHAP. 11.— An Act To amend the Code of Law for the District of Columbia regarding insurance. January 17, 1912.[[H. R. 12737](/us/bill/62/hr/12737).][[Public, No. 56](/us/pl/62/56).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section six hundred andDistrict of Columbia Code.Insurance companies.Vol. 31, p. 1290, amended. forty-six, chapter eighteen, Code of Law for the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the semicolon in line twenty the words “and such other information as said superintendent may require,” so as to read:
" “Sec. 646. Duties of superintendent, and so forth.— It shallSuperintendent of insurance.Duties.s be the duty of said superintendent to see that all laws of the United States relating to insurance or insurance companies, benefit orders, and associations doing business in the District are faithfully executed; to keep on file in his office copies of the charters, declarations ofPapers to be filed with. organization, or articles of incorporation of every insurance company, benefit association, or order, including life, fire, marine, accident, plate-glass, steam-boiler, burglary, cyclone, casualty, live-stock, credit, and maturity companies or associations doing business in the District; and before any such insurance company, association, orIssue of license to await filing. order shall be licensed to do business in the District it shall file with said superintendent a copy of its charter, declaration of organization, or articles of incorporation, duly certified in accordance with law by the insurance commissioners or other proper officers of the 54State, Territory, or nation where such company or association was Certificate of authority, etc.organized; also a certificate setting forth that it is entitled to transact business and assume risks and issue policies of insurance therein, Attorney required for outside companies.and such other information as said superintendent may require; and if its principal office is located outside the District it shall appoint some suitable person, resident in said District, as its attorney, upon *Proviso*.Service on failure to appoint.whom legal process may be served: *Provided, however,* That should said company or association neglect or refuse to appoint such attorney, or should such attorney absent himself from the District, said legal process may be served upon the superintendent of insurance of Fees.the District of Columbia; and the fees for filing with the superintendent such papers as are required by this section shall be ten dollars, to be paid to the collector of taxes, and no other license fee shall be Vol. 31, pp. 1292, 1293.required of such insurance companies or associations except as provided in sections six hundred and fifty-four and six hundred and Regulations.fifty-five of this subchapter.
Said superintendent shall have power to make such rules and regulations, subject to the general supervision of the commissioners, not inconsistent with law, as to make the conduct of each company in the same line of insurance conform in doing business in the District.” " Approved, January 17, 1912.