The Florida Senate

626.171  Application for license.--

(1)  The department shall not issue a license as agent, customer representative, adjuster, insurance agency, service representative, managing general agent, or reinsurance intermediary to any person except upon written application therefor filed with it, qualification therefor, and payment in advance of all applicable fees. Any such application shall be made under the oath of the applicant and be signed by the applicant.

(2)  In the application, the applicant shall set forth:

(a)  His or her full name, age, social security number, residence, place of business, and occupation for the 5-year period preceding the date of application.

(b)  His or her qualifications for the license, as follows:

1.  What efforts he or she has made or intends to make to become familiar with the insurance laws of this state and with the provisions of the contracts to be negotiated.

2.  What insurance experience he or she has had, if any.

3.  What insurance instruction he or she has had or expects to receive.

4.  What approved insurance courses he or she has completed or is in the process of completing which may be used to meet any educational requirements.

(c)  Whether he or she has been refused or has voluntarily surrendered or has had suspended or revoked a license to solicit insurance by the department or by the supervising officials of any state.

(d)  Whether any insurer or any managing general agent claims the applicant is indebted under any agency contract or otherwise and, if so, the name of the claimant, the nature of the claim, and the applicant's defense thereto, if any.

(e)  Whether the applicant will devote all or part of his or her efforts to acting as an insurance representative and, if part only, how much time will be devoted to such work and in what other business or businesses he or she is engaged or employed.

(f)  Such other or additional information as the department may deem proper to enable it to determine the character, experience, ability, and other qualifications of the applicant to hold himself or herself out to the public as an insurance representative.

(3)  An application for an insurance agency license shall be signed by the owner or owners of the agency. If the agency is incorporated, the application shall be signed by the president and secretary of the corporation.

(4)  Each application shall be accompanied by payment of any applicable fee.

(5)  An application for a license as an agent, customer representative, solicitor, adjuster, insurance agency, service representative, managing general agent, reinsurance intermediary, or claims investigator shall be accompanied by a set of the individual applicant's fingerprints, or, if the applicant is not an individual, by a set of the fingerprints of the sole proprietor, majority owner, partners, officers, or directors, on a form adopted by rule of the department and accompanied by the fingerprint processing fee set forth in s. 624.501. The fingerprints shall be certified by a law enforcement officer.

(6)  The application for license filing fee prescribed in s. 624.501 is not subject to refund.

(7)  Pursuant to the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, each party is required to provide his or her social security number in accordance with this section. Disclosure of social security numbers obtained through this requirement shall be limited to the purpose of administration of the Title IV-D program for child support enforcement.

History.--s. 196, ch. 59-205; ss. 13, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 4, ch. 71-86; s. 1, ch. 72-34; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 3, ch. 81-282; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 158(2nd), 217, 807, 810, ch. 82-243; s. 3, ch. 85-208; ss. 16, 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 42, ch. 92-146; s. 212, ch. 97-102; s. 66, ch. 97-170; s. 10, ch. 98-199.