Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.240

  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Health maintenance organization: means that term as defined in section 3501. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (1) The director shall collect, and the person affected shall pay to the director, the following fees:

(a) Filing fee for original authorization to transact insurance or health maintenance organization business in this state, for each domestic, foreign, and alien insurer, and each health maintenance organization…………………………………….. $ 25.00.
(b) Until the effective date of the 2016 amendatory act that amended this subdivision, filing fee for annual statement of foreign and alien insurers, each year, subject to section 476a…………………………… $ 25.00.
(c) Producer’s appointment fee, resident or nonresident, payable by insurer or health maintenance organization so represented, for each producer, each year……………………………………………. $ 5.00.
(d) Application fee payable by each initial applicant for license as resident producer, nonresident producer, surplus lines producer, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster, not transferable or refundable…………. $ 10.00.
(e) Solicitor’s license, each year…………….. $ 10.00.
(f) Insurance counselor license, each year……… $ 10.00.
(g) Adjuster’s license, each year……………… $ 5.00.
(h) License examination fee, payable by applicant for all subjects covered in any 1 examination, or portion of an examination, for license as resident producer, surplus lines producer, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster, each examination, not transferable or refundable………………………………………. $ 10.00.
(i) Surplus lines producer license each year……. $ 100.00.

(2) An incorporated domestic insurer shall pay to the attorney general, for the examination of the insurer’s articles of incorporation or any amendments to the articles of incorporation, $25.00.

  (3) The fees and charges for official services performed by the director or the director’s deputies or employees, when collected, must be turned over to the state treasurer and a receipt taken. The fees and charges provided for in this section must be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund.
  (4) The examination fees described in subsection (1)(h) are applicable only if the examinations are administered by the director. If the examinations are administered by a designated authority other than the director, appropriate examination fees are payable directly to the designated authority.