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HOUSE
BILL 1547
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Passed
Legislature ‑ 2001 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/29/2001. Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions &
Insurance.
Licensing insurance agents, brokers, solicitors, and
adjusters.
AN
ACT Relating to licensing insurance agents, brokers, solicitors, and adjusters;
and amending RCW 48.17.090 and 48.17.330.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
48.17.090 and 1982 c 181 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
Application for any such license shall be made to the commissioner upon forms
as prescribed and furnished by ((him)) the commissioner. As a
part of or in connection with any such application the applicant shall furnish
information concerning his or her identity, including ((his))
fingerprints, personal history, experience, business record, purposes, and
other pertinent facts, as the commissioner may reasonably require.
(2)
Persons resident in the United States but not in Washington may apply for
such a license on a form prepared by the national association of insurance
commissioners or others, if those forms are approved by the commissioner by
rule. An applicant shall also furnish any other information required to be
submitted but not provided for in that form.
(3)
Any person willfully misrepresenting any fact required to be disclosed
in any such application shall be liable to penalties as provided by this code.
(((3)))
(4) If in the process of verifying fingerprints, business records, or
other information the commissioner's office incurs fees or charges from another
governmental agency or from a business firm, the amount of such fees or charges
shall be paid to the commissioner's office by the applicant and shall be
considered the recovery of a previous expenditure.
Sec.
2. RCW
48.17.330 and 1973 1st ex.s. c 107 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The commissioner may license as an agent or as a broker, a person ((who is
otherwise qualified therefor under this code but)) who is not a resident of
or domiciled in this state and who holds a corresponding license issued by
the state or province of his or her residence or domicile, subject to RCW
48.17.530, if by the laws of the state or province of his or her
residence or domicile a similar privilege is extended to residents of or
corporations domiciled in this state. As used in this section,
"state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia,
any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern
Mariana Islands; and "province" means a province of Canada.
(2)
Any such licensee shall be subject to the same obligations and limitations, and
to the commissioner's supervision as though resident or domiciled in this
state, subject to RCW 48.14.040.
(3)
No such person shall be so licensed unless he or she files the power of
attorney provided for in RCW 48.17.340, and, if a corporation, it must have
complied with the laws of this state governing the admission of foreign
corporations.
Passed the House March 9, 2001.
Passed the Senate April 5, 2001.
Approved by the Governor
April 18, 2001.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 18, 2001.
