(a) Unless denied licensure pursuant to § 56-6-112, a nonresident person shall receive an insurance producer license if:

lawyer at desk

Ask an insurance law question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-6-108

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Home state: means any state or territory of the United States and the District of Columbia in which an insurance producer maintains a principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Insurance: means any of the lines of authority in §. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Insurance producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • License: means a document issued by this state's commissioner authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • 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 credit insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Limited lines insurance: means those lines of insurance defined in §. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Limited lines producer: means a person authorized by the commissioner to sell, solicit or negotiate limited lines insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Person: means an individual or a business entity. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Surplus lines producer: means a person authorized by the commissioner to sell, solicit or negotiate surplus lines insurance pursuant to the Surplus Lines Insurance Act, compiled in chapter 14 of this title. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
  • Uniform application: means the current version of the NAIC uniform application for resident and nonresident producer licensing. See Tennessee Code 56-6-102
(1) The person is currently licensed as a resident insurance producer and is in good standing in the person’s home state;
(2) The person has submitted the proper request for licensure and has paid the applicable fees required by § 56-6-121;
(3) The person has submitted or transmitted to the commissioner the application for licensure that the person submitted to the person’s home state, or in lieu of the same, a completed uniform application; and
(4) The person’s home state awards insurance producer licenses to residents of this state on the same basis.
(b) The commissioner may verify the insurance producer’s licensing status through any producer database maintained by the NAIC, its affiliates or subsidiaries.
(c) A nonresident insurance producer who moves from one state to another state or a resident insurance producer who moves from this state to another state shall file a change of address and provide certification from the new resident state within thirty (30) days of the change of legal residence. No fee or license application is required.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a person licensed as a surplus lines producer in the person’s home state shall receive a surplus lines producer license in this state pursuant to subsection (a). Except as provided in subsection (a), nothing in this section otherwise amends or supersedes the Surplus Lines Insurance Act, compiled in chapter 14 of this title.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a person licensed as a limited line credit insurance producer or any other type of limited lines insurance producer in the person’s home state shall receive a nonresident limited lines producer license, pursuant to subsection (a), as long as the license is granted to residents of this state. The license shall grant the nonresident the same scope of authority as granted a resident insurance producer holding the license in this state.
  Previous section
Next section  
 Part 1 Contents