528 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 257

compensation, acts or aids in any manner in negotiating con-
tracts of insurance or reinsurance, or placing risks or effecting
insurance or reinsurance for a person other than himself, and
not being a duly appointed solicitor, agent or officer of the com-
pany in which such insurance or reinsurance is effected, and
not being a duly licensed and qualified broker's solicitor as
defined in, and in conformity with, the provisions of Section
219A of this Article, shall be deemed an insurance broker with-
in the meaning of this Article.

219A. Any person who shall be a bona fide employee of a
duly licensed and qualified broker and not duly operating un-
der a broker's license in conformity with the provisions of Sec-
tion 219 of this Article, and who, for compensation, whether
by way of salary or commission, or both, shall solicit on behalf
of and in the name of his said employer, and not in his own
name, or in any manner aid his said employer in negotiating
contracts of insurance or reinsurance in the name of his said
employer, is hereby designated a broker's solicitor and shall be
deemed to be such for the purposes of this article. No person
shall act in any manner or perform any of the duties or func-
tions of such broker's solicitor until application for a license
therefor shall have been made by each said broker's solicitor
and by his employer on application forms provided by the
insurance commissioner, and duly signed by said broker's so-
licitor and by his said employer and there shall have been
issued by the insurance commissioner a license to act as such
broker's solicitor, for which license there shall be paid to the
insurance commissioner the sum of Twenty-five Dollars by or
for each such broker's solicitor. Said license shall bear the
name of the broker's solicitor to whom issued and of the em-
ployer for whom he is authorized to act and shall authori/e
said broker's solicitor named therein to solicit insurance and
reinsurance in the name of his said employer, but not in his
own name, or in the name of any other person, firm or corpora-
tion, and further to aid in any proper and lawful manner his
said employer in negotiating contracts of insurance and rein-
surance, in the name of his said employer, but shall not author-
ize or permit said broker's solicitor to act in or use his own
name in soliciting or negotiating any contracts of insurance or
reinsurance or in any renewal or renewals of any such con-
tracts, or to deliver any policy or policies or bill any assured
or collect any premium of insurance in his own name or in
any other manner than in the name of and as the agent or