(1) Market conduct surveillance personnel must be qualified by education, experience, and, where applicable, professional designations. The commissioner may supplement the in-house market conduct surveillance staff with qualified outside professional assistance if the commissioner determines that outside assistance is necessary.
(2) The commissioner shall not appoint market conduct surveillance personnel who, either directly or indirectly, have a conflict of interest or are affiliated with the management of or own a pecuniary interest in any person subject to any type of market conduct surveillance under this part 3; except that this section does not preclude market conduct surveillance personnel from being:
A policyholder or claimant under an insurance policy;
A grantor of a mortgage or similar instrument on the market conduct surveillanceemployee's residence to a regulated entity if done under customary terms and in the ordinary course of business;
An investment owner in shares of regulated diversified investment companies; or
A settlor or beneficiary of a blind trust into which any otherwise impermissible holdings have been placed.
(3) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the commissioner may retain from time to time, on an individual basis, qualified actuaries, certified public accountants, or similar individuals who are independently practicing their professions even though those individuals may from time to time be similarly employed or retained by companies subject to market conduct surveillance under this part 3.
Source: L. 2017: Entire part added, (HB 17-1231), ch. 284, p. 1569, § 10, effective January 1, 2018.