33-31-311. Insurance producer license required -- application, issuance, renewal, fees -- penalty. (1) No individual, partnership, or corporation may act as or hold himself out to be an insurance producer of a health maintenance organization unless he is:
     (a) licensed as a disability insurance producer by the commissioner pursuant to chapter 17, parts 1, 2, and 4 of this title or licensed as an insurance producer under 33-30-311 through 33-30-313; and
     (b) appointed or authorized by the health maintenance organization to solicit health care service agreements on its behalf.
     (2) Application, appointment and qualification for a health maintenance organization insurance producer license, fees applicable to and the issuance of a health maintenance organization insurance producer license, and renewal of a health maintenance organization insurance producer license must be in accordance with the provisions of chapter 17 that apply to a disability insurance producer.
     (3) An individual, partnership, or corporation who holds a disability insurance producer license on October 1, 1987, need not requalify by an examination to be licensed as a health maintenance organization insurance producer.
     (4) The commissioner may, in accordance with 33-1-313, 33-1-317, 33-17-411, and chapter 17, part 10, suspend, revoke, refuse to issue or renew a health maintenance organization insurance producer license, or impose a fine upon the licensee.

     History: En. Sec. 15, Ch. 457, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 713, L. 1989.