2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 702 - Licensing
Section 38a-786 - (Formerly Sec. 38-92d). Application for license. Standards for issuance. Fee. Revocation or suspension. Hearing.

(a) The commissioner may, upon receipt of the fee specified in section 38a-11, issue to any person who has attained the age of eighteen a license to act as a certified insurance consultant. The applicant for the license shall file with the commissioner a written application pursuant to section 38a-769, in such manner and form as the commissioner shall prescribe, stating the line or lines of insurance for which the applicant desires such a license. The commissioner may waive the requirement of an examination for a license to act as a certified insurance consultant for (1) property and casualty insurance in the case of any applicant who has been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter, Certified Insurance Counselor or Accredited Advisor in Insurance in the property and casualty line; (2) life and accident insurance in the case of any applicant who has been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Life Underwriter; and (3) all lines of insurance in the case of any applicant who has been awarded the professional designations of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and Chartered Life Underwriter. The commissioner may waive the examination for any applicant for a license to act as a certified insurance consultant who at any time within two years next preceding the date of application has been licensed in this state under a license of the same type as the license applied for.

(b) Any license issued to act as a certified insurance consultant shall be in force until the thirtieth day of September in each odd-numbered year unless sooner revoked or suspended. The license may, in the discretion of the commissioner, be renewed biennially upon payment of the fee specified in section 38a-11.

(c) The commissioner may at any time require such information as the commissioner deems necessary with respect to the business methods, policies and transactions of a licensee under this section. Any person who fails or refuses to furnish the commissioner, in such form as the commissioner may require, any such information within ten days after receiving a written request therefor shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty or more than two thousand five hundred dollars.

(1969, P.A. 817, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 292, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 62; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 78-56; P.A. 80-482, S. 291, 345, 348; P.A. 82-96, S. 4, 8; P.A. 89-251, S. 182, 203; P.A. 90-243, S. 41; P.A. 94-160, S. 20, 24; P.A. 08-178, S. 36.)

History: 1971 act substituted reference to Sec. 38-92i for reference to Sec. 38-92j, “person” for “resident of this state” and specified licensure as “certified” insurance consultant; 1972 act required that licensee be at least 18 rather than 21, reflecting changed age of majority; P.A. 77-614 placed insurance commissioner within the department of business regulation and made insurance department a division within that department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-56 required that application include statement of line or lines of insurance for which applicant desires license and added provisions re waiver of license examination; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance commissioner and division to prior independent status and abolished the department of business regulation; P.A. 82-96 required biennial rather than annual renewal for certified insurance consultants’ licenses and specified fee payment of $100, effective June 1, 1983; P.A. 89-251 increased the application fee from $50 to $200, increased the examination and reexamination fees from $10 to $13, and increased the renewal fee from $100 to $125; P.A. 90-243 divided section into Subsecs., made technical corrections to Subsec. (a) re licensing requirement by enumerating the section numbers for licensure and fees, added a provision allowing the insurance commissioner, in his discretion, to waive the examination requirement of a certified insurance consultant if the applicant has previously held a license of the same type and amended the provision requiring a biennial rather than an annual renewal for certified insurance consultants licenses and deleted the reference to payment of a $100; Sec. 38-92d transferred to Sec. 38a-786 in 1991; P.A. 94-160 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize waiver of examination for accredited advisors in insurance, effective January 1, 1996; P.A. 08-178 amended Subsec. (c) by making technical changes and increasing minimum fine from $50 to $250 and maximum fine from $500 to $2,500.