40      REPORT OF TI-JE COMMISSIONER OP INSURANCE.


MUTUALS EXEMPTED
Sel tion 28. This Act shall not apply to purely mJrtutuld or
to p)urely profit-sharing, fire insurance companies incorporated
or unincorporated under the laws of this state and carried on
by the members thereof solely for the protection of their prop-
erty and not for profit; nor to purely cooperative inter-insur-
ance and reciprocal exchange carried on by the members
thereof solely for the protection of their property and not for
profit. (Laws of 1913, Ch. 106)
WASHINGTON
RATES TO BE FILED
Section 73. Every fire insurance company before it shall
receive a license to transact the business of making insurance
as an insurer in this state, must file in the office of the insur-
ance commissioner a copy of its rating schedules. Every such
company and its agents. stall observe said rating schedules
and shall not deviate therefrom in making insurance until
amended or corrected rating schedules shall have been filed in.,
the office of the insurance commissioner. Any company which
shall make fire insurance in this state according to the advisory
rates, or a, stated deviation therefrom, furnished by a. rating
bureau as provided in the following section, may receive a li-
cense to transact the business of making fire insurance in this
state, without filing a, rating schedule, by filing written notice
in the office of the insurance commissioner of its adoption of
snch advisory rates, stating the deviation therefrom, if any, at
which it will make insurance, which deviation, if any, shall be
uniformly applied to all purchases of insurance from such com-
pany in this state.
RATING B UREAU
Section 74. Any person or persons or co-partnership, res-
ident within this state, or a domestic corporation, may organ-
ize or maintain a rating bureau, for the purpose of inspecting
anl surveying the various municipalities and fire hazards in