(a) Except as provided in section 431:9A-112, a nonresident applicant shall receive a nonresident producer license if:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-108

  • Commissioner: means the insurance commissioner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • Home state: means the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States in which an insurance producer maintains the producer's principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • License: means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • Limited line credit insurance: includes credit life, credit disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed automobile protection ("gap") insurance, and any other form of insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit, that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation that the commissioner determines should be designated a form of limited line of credit insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • Limited lines insurance: means those lines of insurance a producer may be licensed to sell pursuant to section 431:9A-107. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • Limited lines producer: means a person authorized by the commissioner to sell, solicit, or negotiate limited lines insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this State to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
  • Uniform application: means the current version of National Association of Insurance Commissioners' uniform application for resident and nonresident producer licensing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
(1) The applicant is currently licensed and is in good standing as a resident producer in the applicant’s home state;
(2) The applicant has submitted the proper request for licensure and has paid the fees required by § 431:7-101;
(3) The applicant has submitted or transmitted to the commissioner the application for licensure that the applicant submitted to the applicant’s home state, or in lieu of the same, a completed uniform application; and
(4) The applicant’s home state awards nonresident producer licenses to residents of this State on the same basis.
(b) The commissioner may verify the producer’s licensing status through the producer database maintained by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, its affiliates, or subsidiaries.
(c) A nonresident producer who moves from one state to another state or a resident producer who moves from this State to another state shall file a change of address with the commissioner and shall provide certification from the new resident state within thirty days of the change of legal residence. No fee or license application shall be required. Failure to timely inform the commissioner of a change in address shall result in a penalty pursuant to § 431:2-203.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an applicant licensed as a limited line credit insurance producer or other type of limited lines producer in the person’s home state shall receive a nonresident limited lines producer license, pursuant to subsection (a), granting the same scope of authority as granted under the license issued by the producer’s home state. Limited lines insurance authority is any authority granted by the home state, that restricts the authority of the license to less than the total authority prescribed in the associated major lines pursuant to section 431:9A-107(a) (1) through (5).