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(b) For filing each annual statement, the sum of twenty-five dollars,
(c) For the certificate of authority issued to each agent in this State of
every foreign fire or marine insurance company, the sum of two dollars.

(d) For the certificate of authority issued to each solicitor in this State
of every foreign fire or marine insurance company, the sum of two dollars.

(e) For the certificate of authority issued to each agent in this State
of every foreign insurance company other than fire or marine, the sum of
two dollars.

(f) For the certificate of authority issued in this State to each insur-
ance agent or solicitor of every insurance company incorporated under the
laws of this State, the sum of fifty cents.

(g) For each abstract of its annual statement for publication, two
dollars.

(h) For every copy of every paper filed in the insurance department,
the sum of twenty-five cents per folio; and for affixing the official seal to
such copy, the sum of one dollar.

(i) For valuing policies of life insurance companies thirty dollars per
million of insurance, or any fractional part thereof.

(j) For official examination of companies under this Article, the charges
specified in Section 50 of this Article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 45. 1922. ch. 492, sec. 45. 1924, ch. 234. 1935, ch. 469.
45. Rebating and Discriminations Prohibited (Fire and Miscellane-
ous). No corporation, association, partnership, Lloyd's, individual under-
writers or reciprocal associations, authorized or permitted to do any insur-
ance business within this State, or any officer, agent, solicitor, or represen-
tative thereof, and no insurance broker, individual, co-partnership or
corporation authorized or permitted to do business as such in this State,
or any officer, agent, solicitor or representative thereof, shall with intent
to discriminate make or permit any distinction in rates applied or pre-
miums charged or dividends or other benefits returned, or the terms or
conditions of insurance, whereby any person whose property is insured
in a particular company is favored as compared with another whose prop-
erty is insured in such company and is of the same character and condi-
tion and similarly situated as to exposure, ownership, control, possession
or occupancy and risk as his; or make or negotiate any contract for insur-
ance on property or risk located within this State, or against liability,
casualty, accident or hazard that may arise or occur therein, or any agree-
ment as to such contract, other than as plainly expressed in the policy or
contract of insurance issued or to be issued thereon, nor directly or indi-
rectly, in any manner whatsoever, as inducement to such insurance, pay,
allow, or offer to pay or allow to the insured named in such policy, or to
any employee of such insured, nor shall any such insured or the employee
of such insured, directly or indirectly accept or knowingly receive, or
agree to accept or receive in any manner whatsoever, as inducement to such
insurance, at any time or under any conditions, before or after the in-
surance shall have been effected, any inducement or rebate from the pre-