(a) The commissioner shall, after notice and hearing, promulgate reasonable rules and regulations specifying the manner and type of records to be maintained by those licensees acting as insurance agents and brokers and the location where the records shall be kept. Those records shall be open to inspection or examination by the commissioner at all times, and the commissioner may at any time require the licensee to furnish any information maintained or required to be maintained in those records.
(b) Every licensee acting as an insurance agent and broker shall keep the records as required by the regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) Every licensee acting as an insurance agent and broker employing a licensee in the capacity of an insurance solicitor shall keep the records required by the regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision (a) for any insurance transacted by the insurance solicitor in the capacity of employee of the employing licensee.
(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 782, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2000.)