172A.2  License required.
  No person shall act as a dealer or broker without first being licensed. No person shall act for any dealer or broker as an agent unless such dealer or broker is licensed, has designated such agent to act in the dealer’s or broker’s behalf, and has notified the secretary of the designation in the dealer’s or broker’s application for license or has given official notice in writing of the appointment of the agent and the secretary has issued to the agent an agent’s license. A dealer or broker shall be accountable and responsible for contracts made by an agent in the course of the agent’s employment. The license of an agent whose employment by the dealer or broker is terminated shall be void on the date written notice of termination is received by the secretary. The license of a dealer, broker, or agent, unless revoked, shall expire on the last day of June following the date of issue. The annual fee for the license of a dealer or broker is fifty dollars. The annual fee for an agent’s license is ten dollars.
  No person may be issued a license if that person previously has had a license revoked, or previously was issued a license and the secretary suspended that license, unless the order of suspension or revocation is thereafter terminated by the secretary.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §172A.2]