Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 33. INSURANCE AND INSURANCE COMPANIES

CHAPTER 17. INSURANCE PRODUCERS, ADJUSTERS, CONSULTANTS, AND ADMINISTRATORS

Part 11. Conduct of Business by Insurance Producers

Place Of Business -- Display Of License -- Records

33-17-1101. Place of business -- display of license -- records. (1) A resident insurance producer shall maintain a place or places of business in this state accessible to the public. A nonresident insurance producer may maintain a place or places of business in this state. An insurance producer's place or places of business must be a place in which transactions are conducted under the insurance producer's license. The address of the primary place of business must appear on the license. This section does not prohibit the maintenance of a place of business in a licensee's place of residence.

(2) The license or, if the insurance producer has more than one place of business, a copy of the license must be conspicuously displayed in a part of the place of business customarily open to the public.

(3) On request, resident and nonresident insurance producers are required to identify themselves and provide their license number to persons with whom they sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance.

(4) The insurance producer shall keep at a place of business complete records pertaining to transactions under the license for a period of at least 3 years after completion of the respective transactions, except that a title insurance producer, as defined in 33-25-105, shall retain records as provided in 33-25-214 and 33-25-216.

History: En. Sec. 167, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-3323; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 345, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 519, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 409, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 53, Ch. 713, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 261, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 169, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 157, L. 2023.