Every person who shall so represent any such company as to receive or transmit applications for suretyship, or to receive for delivery bonds founded on applications from this state, or otherwise to procure suretyship to be effected by said company upon the bonds of persons or corporations in this state, or upon bonds given to persons or corporations in this state, shall be deemed as an agent for such company. No person shall act as agent for such company until such company shall have complied with all of the requirements of this chapter, under penalty of a fine of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).