No agent shall receive, buy, solicit or negotiate the sale of any agricultural commodity in this State on behalf of any commission merchant, dealer or broker unless such agent has been designated by a duly licensed commission merchant, dealer or broker to so act and unless such commission merchant, dealer or broker has notified the secretary in his application for license or given notice in writing of such designation and has requested the secretary to issue to the agent an agent's license.
N.J.S. § 4:11-22