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This law was first created in 1952. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 317 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1952 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1986, chapter 562; in 2017, chapter 655<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1438251,"object_type":"law","relational_id":361240,"identifier":"38.2-1208","token":"38.2\/12\/1\/38.2-1208","url":"\/38.2-1208\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/38.2-1208\/","token":"38.2\/12\/1\/38.2-1208","dublin_core":{"Title":"Additional requirements, foreign and alien reciprocals","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 38.2-1208","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

No foreign reciprocal shall be licensed to transact the business of insurance<\/span> in this Commonwealth unless it has filed with the Commission<\/span> a certificate of the supervising insurance<\/span> official of the state<\/span> in which it is organized. The certificate shall show that the foreign reciprocal is licensed to write and is writing actively in that state<\/span> or an affiliate of the foreign reciprocal is licensed to write and is writing actively in its state<\/span> of domicile or at least two other states<\/span> the class of insurance<\/span> it proposes to write in this Commonwealth. No alien reciprocal shall be licensed to transact the business of insurance<\/span> until it has filed with the Commission<\/span> a certificate of the supervising insurance<\/span> official of (i) the state<\/span> through which it entered the United States<\/span> or (ii) the alien reciprocal’s domiciliary country. The certificate shall show that the alien reciprocal is licensed to write and is writing actively in that state<\/span> or country the class of insurance<\/span> it proposes to write in this Commonwealth.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS, FOREIGN AND ALIEN RECIPROCALS (\u00a7 38.2-1208)\n\nNo foreign reciprocal shall be licensed to transact the business of insurance in\nthis Commonwealth unless it has filed with the Commission a certificate of the\nsupervising insurance official of the state in which it is organized. The\ncertificate shall show that the foreign reciprocal is licensed to write and is\nwriting actively in that state or an affiliate of the foreign reciprocal is\nlicensed to write and is writing actively in its state of domicile or at least\ntwo other states the class of insurance it proposes to write in this\nCommonwealth. No alien reciprocal shall be licensed to transact the business of\ninsurance until it has filed with the Commission a certificate of the\nsupervising insurance official of (i) the state through which it entered the\nUnited States or (ii) the alien reciprocal’s domiciliary country. The\ncertificate shall show that the alien reciprocal is licensed to write and is\nwriting actively in that state or country the class of insurance it proposes to\nwrite in this Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 1952, c. 317, \u00a7 38.1-696; 1986, c. 562; 2017, c. 655.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}