(1) "Premium finance agreement" means an agreement by which an insured or prospective insured promises to pay to a premium finance company or to its assignee the amount advanced or to be advanced under the agreement to an insurer or to an insurance producer in payment of premiums on an insurance policy together with a service charge. No mortgage, conditional sale contract or other security agreement covering property which authorizes the lienholder to pay or advance premiums for insurance with respect thereto shall be deemed to be a premium finance agreement.
(2) "Premium finance company" means a person engaged in the business of entering into premium finance agreements with insureds or of acquiring such premium finance agreements from insurance producers or other premium finance companies. [1969 c.639 §2; 2003 c.364 §146]