(b) No insurance broker or other person, firm, association or corporation not having such a bona fide interest or bona fide expectation of acquiring such an interest, shall knowingly apply for, effect, accept or transfer in this state any such evidence of a contract of marine insurance without having been previously authorized so to do by, or by the authority of, a person, firm, association or corporation having such a bona fide interest or a bona fide expectation of acquiring such an interest.