Section 11103 Of Article 6. Powers Of Commissioner From California Insurance Code >> Division 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 10. >> Article 6.
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. Insofar as his or her license to represent a fraternal
benefit society is concerned, the examination requirements of Article
7 (commencing with Section 1675) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division
1 does not apply to any agent of a society who was in the service of
a society on March 1, 1945, and who is licensed to represent a
fraternal benefit society on January 1, 1952, and continuously
thereafter, nor to any agent of a society who does not devote
substantially full time to the sale of life or disability insurance,
whether that insurance is provided by insurance policies or by
fraternal benefit policies or certificates. If any person exempted
from such examination requirements by virtue of not devoting
substantially full time to the sale of life or disability insurance
as hereinabove provided, shall, after securing a license pursuant to
the provisions of this section, thereafter devote substantially full
time to the sale of such insurance, the society shall give notice
thereof to the commissioner. The commissioner thereupon shall send to
the licensee a notice specifying when the examination fee shall be
paid and when, not sooner than one month nor later than three months
the licensee must qualify by examination. Failure to pass the
examination or failure to appear pursuant to notification shall
result in a termination 45 days thereafter of all license privileges
unless within such 45-day period the licensee passes the examination.
The licensee shall not be permitted to retake the examination more
than twice within that 45-day period. Thereafter the person may be
licensed as a fraternal benefit agent only if he or she files a new
application for the license and either (a) takes and passes the
qualifying examination or (b) demonstrates affirmatively to the
commissioner that he or she will no longer devote substantially full
time to the sale of life or disability insurance.