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Licenses.
Corporate surety bonds. Limitation.
Right to b r i n g suit.
D. C. Code 1-244 (b).
S u s p e n sion or r e v o c a t i o n of licenses.
PUBLIC LAW 86-431-APR. 22, 1960
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ST A T.
Commissioners are authorized to require either bonds or such other security as they may by regulation deem necessary, of persons licensed to engage in the business of buying or selling motor vehicles and of persons licensed to engage in the business of purchasing contracts for the retail installment sales of motor vehicles, and the Commissioners may, from time to time, and in their discretion, establish classes and subclasses of such persons and, subject to subsection (b) of this section, specify the amount and conditions of the bond to be deposited by each of the members of any such class or subclass. I n connection with the licensing of said persons, and the bonding of the members of any class or subclass of the said persons, the Commissioners, in their discretion, may by regulation require applicants for licenses: (1) to furnish and keep in force a bond running to the District, or other security, to protect members of the public against financial loss by reason of the failure of the licensee or of any officer, agent, employee, or other person acting on behalf of said licensee, to observe any law or regulation in force in the District of Columbia applicable to the licensee's conduct of the licensed business; (2) to procure and keep in force public liability insurance or property damage insurance, or both; (3) to appoint the Commissioners as their true and lawful attorney upon whom all judicial and other process or legal notice directed to such person may be served. (b) The bonds authorized by this section shall be corporate surety bonds in amounts to be fixed by the Commissioners, but no bond shall exceed $25,000, and such bond shall be conditioned upon the observance by the licensee and any officer, agent, employee, or other person acting on behalf of said licensee, of all laws and regulations in force in the District applicable to the licensee's conduct of the licensed business, for the benefit of any person who may suffer damages resulting from the violation of any such law or regulation by or on the part of such licensee or any officer, agent, employee, or other person acting on behalf of the licensee. (c) Any person aggrieved by the violation of any law or regulation applicable to the licensee's conduct of the licensed activity shall have, in addition to his right of action against such licensee, a right to bring suit against the surety on a bond authorized by this section, either alone or jointly with the principal thereon, and to recover in an amount not exceeding the penalty of the bond any damages sustained by reason of any act, transaction, or conduct of the licensee, or of any officer, agent, employee, or other person acting on behalf of said licensee, which is in violation of law or regulation in force in the District relating to the licensed activity. The provisions of the second, third, and the fifth subparagraphs of paragraph (b) of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to grant additional powers to the Commissioners, and for other purposes"', approved December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 820; sec. l-244(b), D.C. Code, 1951 edition), shall be applicable to each bond authorized by this section as if it were the bond authorized by the first subparagraph of such paragraph (b) of the first section of said Act approved December 20, 1944: Provided, That nothing in this subsection shall be construed to impose upon the surety on any such bond a greater liability than the total amount thereof or the amount remaining unextinguished after any prior recovery or recoveries. SEC. 4. Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 46 of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, and for other purposes, approved July 1, 1902, as amended
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