GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 918

Short Title:  Ins.-Sales Licenses Limited.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Beard; Barbee, Bowie, Brawley, and Michaux.
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Referred to:  Commerce.
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April 19, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT THAT CLARIFIES THAT SECRETARIES AND OTHER CLERICAL ASSISTANTS DO NOT HAVE TO BE LICENSED AS INSURANCE AGENTS TO SELL INSURANCE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF RESIDENT LICENSED INSURANCE AGENTS AND BROKERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 58-3-130 reads as rewritten:
"§ 58-3-130.  Agent, adjuster, etc., acting without a license or violating insurance law.
If any person shall assume to act either as principal, agent, broker, limited representative, adjuster or motor vehicle damage appraiser without license as is required by law or, pretending to be a principal, agent, broker, limited representative, adjuster or licensed motor vehicle damage appraiser, shall solicit, examine or inspect any risk, or shall examine into, adjust, or aid in adjusting any loss, investigate or advise relative to the nature and amount of damages to motor vehicles or the amount necessary to effect repairs thereto, or shall receive, collect, or transmit any premium of insurance, or shall do any other act in the soliciting, making or executing any contract of insurance of any kind otherwise than the law permits, or as principal or agent shall violate any provision of law contained in Articles 1 through 64 of this Chapter, the punishment for which is not elsewhere provided for, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall pay a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than two years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to secretarial and assistants who are working under the direction and  supervision of a licensed insurance agent or broker who maintains a full-time office in which he is resident and in which these exempted personnel work."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.