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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 10 - Insurance » Article 2 - Licenses » Part 4 - Licensing and Appointment of Insurance Producers

§ 10-2-401. License Required

No person shall act as or hold oneself out to be an insurance producer unless duly licensed as an insurance producer in accordance with this article. Every insurance producer who solicits or negotiates an application for insurance of any kind on behalf of an insurer shall be regarded as representing the insurer and not the […]

§ 10-2-402. License Examination Requirement

Unless exempt pursuant to section 10-2-403, a resident individual applying for an insurance producer license shall pass a written examination. The examination shall reasonably test the individual applicant’s minimum acceptable level of competence as to the particular line or lines of authority for which the individual applicant seeks qualification, unless an individual applicant has been […]

§ 10-2-403. Exemption From License Examination

The following applicants shall be exempt from the written examination requirements set forth in section 10-2-402: An individual who applies for an insurance producer license in this state who was previously licensed for the same lines of authority in this state or another state shall not be required to complete any prelicensing education or examination. […]

§ 10-2-404. Application for License

An applicant for a resident insurance producer license shall make application on a form specified by the commissioner and shall declare under penalty of refusal, suspension, or revocation of the license that the statements made in the application are true, correct, and complete to the best of the individual’s knowledge and belief. Before approving the […]

§ 10-2-405. Residency – Individuals – Agencies

The commissioner may qualify an applicant as a resident of this state and shall issue an insurance producer license to any qualified resident person of this state in accordance with the following: An individual applicant may qualify as a resident only if he or she resides in this state. Any license issued pursuant to any […]

§ 10-2-406. Licensing of Agencies

For the purposes set forth in section 10-2-701, an insurance agency or business entity shall be licensed as an insurance producer. The insurance agency or business entity shall register the name of every natural person who, as a member, officer, director, stockholder, owner, or employee of the agency or business entity, is acting as and […]

§ 10-2-407. License – Definitions of Lines of Insurance – Authority

Unless a person is denied licensure pursuant to section 10-2-801, the division shall issue to a person who has met the requirements of sections 10-2-401 and 10-2-404 an insurance producer license. An insurance producer may receive qualification for a single license to include one or more of the following lines of authority: “Life”, which means […]

§ 10-2-408. License – Contents – Continuation Due Date

The commissioner shall issue a perpetual insurance producer license to an applicant who has met the requirements of section 10-2-404. The license shall state the name, address, and personal identification number of the licensee, the date of issuance, general conditions relative to expiration or cancellation, the line or lines of insurance covered by the license, […]

§ 10-2-409. License – Amendment – Reissuance

An insurance producer licensee shall promptly notify the commissioner, on a form prescribed by the commissioner, of any change that will require amending a license to reflect that change, including without limitation a legal change of the licensee’s name, a change of address, or change or removal of a trade name. The commissioner may require […]

§ 10-2-410. Temporary Licensing

The commissioner may issue a temporary license to an individual to act as an insurance producer for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty days, without requiring an examination, if the commissioner deems that such temporary license authority is necessary for the servicing of an insurance business in the following cases: To the surviving […]

§ 10-2-411. Duplicate License

The commissioner may issue a duplicate license to any actively licensed insurance producer if such producer’s license is lost, stolen, or destroyed upon an affidavit by the producer in a form prescribed and furnished by the commissioner concerning the facts of such loss, theft, or destruction. Source: L. 93: Entire article R&RE, p. 1362, § […]

§ 10-2-412. Change of Address – Notification

Individual and insurance agency producer licensees shall inform the commissioner in writing, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, of any change of address within thirty days after the change. Failure of any licensee to inform the commissioner of any change to the licensee’s address of record or residence address shall be grounds for the […]

§ 10-2-413. Fees

The commissioner shall, by rule, set reasonable fees and penalties for the following: Insurance producer license; and Continuation of license. All fees payable to the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be nonrefundable. Fees shall be set at the levels necessary to ensure that revenues from such fees, together with revenues from all other fees […]

§ 10-2-414. Additional Lines of Authority – Application for License

An insurance producer licensee requesting licensure for any additional line or lines of authority shall comply with the requirements of section 10-2-404. Upon receipt of the application filing, any supporting documents as required by section 10-2-404, and the applicable fee, the commissioner may issue a replacement license to include the additional lines. Source: L. 93: […]

§ 10-2-415.5. Appointment of Insurance Producer – Continuation – Renewal – Exceptions

No insurance producer shall claim to be a representative or authorized or appointed agent of, or use any other term implying a contractual relationship with, a particular bail insurance company or accept applications on behalf of the bail insurance company unless the insurance producer becomes through a written contract a producer appointee, appointed by that […]

§ 10-2-416. Notification to the Commissioner of Termination

Termination for cause. An insurer or authorized representative of the insurer that terminates employment, a contract, or other insurance business relationship with a producer shall notify the commissioner within thirty days following the effective date of the termination, using a format prescribed by the commissioner, if the reason for termination is one of the reasons […]