Insofar as his or her license to represent a fraternal benefit society is concerned, the examination requirements of Article 7 (commencing with Section 1675) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 1 does not apply to any agent of a society who was in the service of a society on March 1, 1945, and who is licensed to represent a fraternal benefit society on January 1, 1952, and continuously thereafter, nor to any agent of a society who does not devote substantially full time to the sale of life or disability insurance, whether that insurance is provided by insurance policies or by fraternal benefit policies or certificates. If any person exempted from such examination requirements by virtue of not devoting substantially full time to the sale of life or disability insurance as hereinabove provided, shall, after securing a license pursuant to the provisions of this section, thereafter devote substantially full time to the sale of such insurance, the society shall give notice thereof to the commissioner. The commissioner thereupon shall send to the licensee a notice specifying when the examination fee shall be paid and when, not sooner than one month nor later than three months the licensee must qualify by examination. Failure to pass the examination or failure to appear pursuant to notification shall result in a termination 45 days thereafter of all license privileges unless within such 45-day period the licensee passes the examination. The licensee shall not be permitted to retake the examination more than twice within that 45-day period. Thereafter the person may be licensed as a fraternal benefit agent only if he or she files a new application for the license and either (a) takes and passes the qualifying examination or (b) demonstrates affirmatively to the commissioner that he or she will no longer devote substantially full time to the sale of life or disability insurance.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 454, Sec. 112.)