Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702g – Nonresident licenses
(a) Unless a person is denied a license pursuant to § 38a-702k, 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 § 38a-11; (3) the person has submitted or transmitted to the commissioner the application for licensure that the person submitted to the person’s home state, or in lieu of the same, a completed uniform application, provided an applicant for a surplus lines broker license or limited lines credit insurance producer license may submit any other application acceptable to the commissioner; and (4) the person’s home state awards nonresident producer licenses to residents of this state on the same basis.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702g
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- Home state: means any state or territory of the United States, including, but not limited to, the District of Columbia, in which an insurance producer maintains the producer's principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- Insurance: means any of the lines of authority contained in this title. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- License: means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- Limited line credit insurance: includes credit life, credit disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed automobile protection insurance and any other form of insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation that the commissioner determines should be designated a form of limited line credit insurance. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- Limited lines producer: means a person authorized by the commissioner to sell, solicit or negotiate limited lines insurance. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- Person: means an individual or a business entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
- State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Uniform application: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners uniform application for resident and nonresident producer licensing, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-702a
(b) The commissioner may verify the producer’s licensing status through the producer database maintained by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, its affiliates or subsidiaries.
(c) A nonresident producer who moves to this state from another state or a resident producer who moves from this state to another state shall file a change of address and provide certification from the new resident state not later than thirty days after the change of legal residence. No licensing fee or application shall be required from a producer moving to this state pursuant to this section.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of sections 38a-702a to 38a-702r, inclusive, a person licensed as a surplus lines broker in the person’s home state shall receive a nonresident surplus lines broker license pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, nothing in this section otherwise amends or supersedes any provision of sections 38a-740 to 38a-745, inclusive.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of sections 38a-702a to 38a-702r, inclusive, a person licensed as a limited line credit insurance producer or other type of limited lines producer in the producer’s home state shall receive a nonresident limited lines producer license, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, granting the same scope of authority as granted under the license issued by the producer’s home state. For the purpose of this section, limited line insurance is any authority granted by the home state which restricts the authority of the license to less than the total authority prescribed in the associated major lines pursuant to subdivisions (1) to (6), inclusive, of subsection (a) of § 38a-702f.