(1) By the filing of the application and issuance of a nonresident insurance producer license, a nonresident insurance producer licensee shall be deemed to have appointed the commissioner and successors in office as said nonresident's agent upon whom all lawful process in any legal proceeding against the nonresident may be served and to have agreed that any such lawful process has the same legal force and validity as personal service of process upon such nonresident.
The commissioner shall, within ten working days after receiving three copies of theprocess served, forward a copy of such process by registered or certified mail to the person for whom the commissioner has received such process at the nonresident individual's address of record, or, if the nonresident is an insurance agency, at the agency's principal place of business. The commissioner shall keep a record of all process so served.
Service of process upon any such licensee in any action or proceeding instituted bythe commissioner under this section shall be made by the commissioner by mailing such process by registered mail to an individual licensee at the licensee's last known address of record or to an insurance agency licensee at its principal place of business.
Source: L. 93: Entire article R&RE, p. 1367, § 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 98: (2) amended, p. 1325, § 25, effective June 1. L. 2001: (2) amended, p. 1208, § 25, effective January 1, 2002.