48       REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF tNSU1ANCE.


seven and nine of this chapter, but it shall apply to all other
forms of insurance mentioned in any article of this chapter.
(Laws of 1913, Ch. 21.),
ORGANIZATIONS THAT ASSIST IN RATE-MAKING
Section 140. Every corporation, association, bureau or
board which now exists or hereafter may be formed, and
every person who maintains or hereafter may maintain a
bureau or office, for the purpose of assisting any underwrit-
ing corporation, association, bureau or person in formulating,
fixing, promulgating, applying or maintaining a rate on prop-
erty or risk of any kind located in this state, shall file with
the superintendent of insurance a copy of the articles of
agreement, association or incorporation and the by-laws and
all amendments thereto under which such person, association
bureau or board operates or proposes to operate, together
with his or its business address, as well as such other informa-
tion concerning such organization and its operations as may
be required by the superintendent. Every such person, cor-
poration, association, bureau or board, whether before or
after filing of the information specified in the last preceding
paragraph, shall-be subject to the visitation, supervision and
examination of the superintendent of insurance, who shall
cause to be made an examination thereof as often asl he deems
it expedient. For this purpose he may appoint as examiners
one or more competent persons, and upon such examination,
he, his deputy or any examiner authorized by him shall have
all the powters given to the superintendent, his deputy or any
exarminer authorized by him by section thirty-nine of this chap-
ter, including the. power to examine under oath the officers .or
agents and all persons deemed to have material information
regarding the business of or manner of operation of every
.suteh person, corporation, association, bureau or board.
EXEMPTIONS
This section shall not apply to any contract of life! insur-
ance, nor to any contract of insurance upon or in connection
with marine or transportation risks or hazards other than con-
tracts for automobile insurance, nor to contracts of insurance