California Insurance Code 1758.83 – (a) The manager at each location of a rental car company or a …
(a) The manager at each location of a rental car company or a franchisee of a rental car company licensed pursuant to this article, or the direct supervisor of the company’s endorsees at each location or region shall be an endorsee and shall be responsible for the supervision of each additional endorsee at that location or region. Each licensee shall identify the endorsee who is the manager or supervisor at each location for the purposes of this article.
(b) An endorsee may act on behalf and under the supervision of the car rental agent in matters relating to transacting insurance under that agent’s license. The conduct of an endorsee of a car rental agent acting within the scope of employment or agency shall be deemed the conduct of the car rental agent for purposes of this article.
Terms Used In California Insurance Code 1758.83
- Car rental agent: means a person or organization licensed pursuant to this article to offer insurance in connection with and incidental to rental car agreements on behalf of an insurer authorized to write those types of insurance in this state. See California Insurance Code 1758.89
- Endorsee: means an unlicensed employee of a car rental agent who meets the requirements of this article. See California Insurance Code 1758.89
- 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
- Rental car company: means any person in the business of renting vehicles to the public. See California Insurance Code 1758.89
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 184, Sec. 34. (SB 1255) Effective January 1, 2021.)