(A) An agent means a person who is appointed or employed by a health maintenance organization and who engages in solicitation of membership in the organization. This definition does not include a person enrolling members on behalf of an employer, union, or other organization to whom a master subscriber contract has been issued.
(B) The department may by regulation exempt certain classes of persons from the requirement of obtaining a license:
(1) if the functions they perform do not require special competence, trustworthiness, or the regulatory surveillance made possible by licensing; or
(2) if other existing safeguards make regulation unnecessary.
HISTORY: Enacted as 1976 Code Section 38-25-150 by 1987 Act No. 83, Section 1; recodified as Section 38-33-150 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 24; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 633.