California Insurance Code 1675 – The following applicants who have theretofore been licensed under …
The following applicants who have theretofore been licensed under this code are exempt from the requirements of this article:
(a) An applicant for a license to act as a property broker-agent or a casualty broker-agent who has been licensed as a property broker-agent, casualty broker-agent, or surplus line broker during any part of the license year in which the application is filed or the immediately preceding license year.
Terms Used In California Insurance Code 1675
- Casualty broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Insurance Code 33.5
- insurance agent: as used in this chapter does not include a life agent as defined in this article. See California Insurance Code 1621
- license: includes a certificate of convenience and a permanent license, and the term "persons who are licensed" includes the holders of any such certificate or the license, but these definitions and the use of those terms in this chapter shall not confer upon a certificate of convenience or any holder thereof any property right in or to the certificate, the certificate being and remaining only a temporary permit, issued as a matter of convenience, allowing the transaction of insurance without a permanent license, but within the limits, and subject to the conditions of the certificate of convenience issued and the laws applicable thereto. See California Insurance Code 1627
- licensee: means an insurer, agent, broker, or any other person who is required to be licensed by the department. See California Insurance Code 38.6
- Property broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Insurance Code 33.5
- Resident: means residing in this State, "nonresident" means not residing in this State. See California Insurance Code 30
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
- Surplus line broker: means a person licensed under Section 1765 and authorized to do business under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1760) of Part 2 of Division 1. See California Insurance Code 47
(b) An applicant for a license to act as a life agent who has been licensed as a life agent during any part of the license year in which the application is filed or the immediately preceding license year.
(c) An applicant for a license to act as an accident and health or sickness agent who has been licensed as an accident and health or sickness agent during any part of the license year in which the application is filed or the immediately preceding license year.
(d) An applicant for a license to act as a travel insurance agent.
(e) An applicant specifically exempted from the particular qualifying examination requirement by other provisions of this code.
(f) (1) A nonresident licensee who applies for a property broker-agent, casualty broker-agent, personal lines broker-agent, or life agent resident license in this state, and who is currently licensed for the same lines of authority in the state of the current resident license, shall not be required to complete an examination. The application shall be received within 90 days of the cancellation of the applicant’s resident license and the producer database records, maintained by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shall indicate that the producer is licensed in good standing for the line of authority requested.
(2) Upon issuance of the California resident license, the examination waiver also applies to adding additional lines of authority to the California resident license provided that the individual was previously licensed in good standing for the requested additional lines of authority, and the application is received within 12 months of the cancellation of the applicant’s previous resident license in another state.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 184, Sec. 14. (SB 1255) Effective January 1, 2021.)