33-17-401. Nonresident insurance producer -- license. (1) A nonresident person, unless denied licensure pursuant to 33-17-1001, must be granted a license if:
(a) the person is currently licensed as a resident and is in good standing in the person's home state;
(b) the person has submitted the proper request for licensure and has paid the fees required by 33-2-708;
(c) the person has submitted or transmitted to the commissioner the application for licensure that the person submitted to the person's home state or a completed application in a form approved by the commissioner; and
(d) the person's home state awards nonresident insurance producer licenses to residents of this state on the same basis.
(2) A person licensed as a surplus lines producer in that person's home state must receive a nonresident surplus lines producer license upon meeting the requirements of subsection (1). Except for subsection (1), this section does not amend or supersede any provision of the surplus lines insurance law established in Title 33, chapter 2, part 3.
(3) A person licensed as a limited line credit insurance producer or other type of limited lines producer in that person's home state must receive a nonresident limited lines producer license upon meeting the requirements of subsection (1), granting the same scope of authority as granted under the license issued by the producer's home state. For the purposes of this subsection, limited lines insurance is any authority granted by a nonresident's home state that restricts the authority of the licensee to less than the total authority prescribed in the associated major lines pursuant to 33-17-214(2)(a) through (2)(e).
(4) If a nonresident insurance producer's state of residence suspends, revokes, or terminates the insurance producer's insurance license in that state, the insurance producer's Montana nonresident license automatically terminates. The nonresident insurance producer shall notify the commissioner that the insurance producer's state of residence has suspended, revoked, or terminated the insurance producer's insurance license in that state.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 44, L. 1969; R.C.M. 1947, 40-3333; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 345, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 409, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 29, Ch. 713, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 106, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 469, L. 2005.