Ind. Code § 27-1-15.6-8

Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 27-1-15.6-8 - Nonresident producer license
(a) Unless denied licensure under section 12 of this chapter, a nonresident person shall receive a nonresident producer license if:
(1) the person is currently licensed as a resident and in good standing in the person's home state;
(2) the person has submitted the proper request for licensure and has paid the fees required under section 32 of this chapter;
(3) the person has submitted or transmitted to the commissioner:
(A) the application for licensure that the person submitted to the person's home state; or
(B) a completed uniform application; and
(4) the person's home state awards non-resident producer licenses to residents of Indiana on the same basis as non-resident producer licenses are awarded to residents of other states under this chapter.
(b) The commissioner may verify a producer's licensing status through the centralized insurance producer license registry described in section 7 of this chapter.
(c) A:
(1) person who holds an Indiana nonresident producer's license and moves from one state to another state; or
(2) resident producer who moves from Indiana to another state;

shall file a change of address with the Indiana department of insurance and provide certification from the new resident state not more than thirty (30) days after the change of legal residence. No fee or license application is required under this subsection.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person licensed as a surplus lines producer in the person's home state shall receive a nonresident surplus lines producer license under subsection (a). Except as provided in subsection (a), nothing in this section otherwise amends or supercedes IC 27-1-15.8.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person who is not a resident of Indiana and who is licensed as a limited lines credit insurance producer or another type of limited lines producer in the person's home state shall, upon application, receive a nonresident limited lines producer license under subsection (a) granting the same scope of authority as is granted under the license issued by the person's home state.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a nonresident producer who receives a nonresident producer license under this section shall maintain licensure in good standing in the nonresident producer's home state.
(g) If a nonresident producer fails to maintain licensure in good standing in the nonresident producer's home state, the commissioner may:
(1) in the commissioner's sole discretion;
(2) without a hearing; and
(3) in addition to any other sanction allowed by law;

suspend any Indiana insurance producer license held by the nonresident producer until the commissioner receives notice from the nonresident producer's home state that the home state license is in effect.

IC 27-1-15.6-8

Amended by P.L. 124-2018,SEC. 36, eff. 7/1/2018.
Amended by P.L. 72-2016, SEC. 9, eff. 7/1/2016.
As added by P.L. 132-2001, SEC.3.