North Dakota Code § 26.1-26-09

Exceptions to licensing requirements
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1. Nothing in this chapter may be construed to require an insurer to obtain an insurance 
producer license. In this section, the term "insurer" does not include an insurer's 
officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
2. A license as an insurance producer is not required of the following:
a. An officer, director, or employee of an insurer or of an insurance producer, 
provided that the officer, director, or employee does not receive any commission 
on policies written or sold to insure risks residing, located, or to be performed in 
this state and:
(1) The officer, director, or employee's activities are executive, administrative, 
managerial, clerical, or a combination of these, and are only indirectly 
related to the sale, solicitation, or negotiation of insurance;
(2) The officer, director, or employee's function relates to underwriting, loss 
control, inspection, or the processing, adjusting, investigating, or settling of a 
claim on a contract of insurance; or
(3) The officer, director, or employee is acting in the capacity of a special agent 
or agency supervisor assisting insurance producers when the person's 
activities are limited to providing technical advice and assistance to licensed 
insurance producers and do not include the sale, solicitation, or negotiation 
of insurance.
b. A person who secures and furnishes information for the purpose of group life 
insurance, group property and casualty insurance, group annuities, group or 
blanket accident and health insurance, or for the purpose of enrolling individuals 
under plans or otherwise assisting in administering plans, or performs 
administrative services related to mass -marketed property and casualty 
insurance, when no commission is paid to the person for the service.
c. An employer or association or its officers, directors, employees, or the trustees of 
an employee trust plan, to the extent that the employers, officers, employees, 
directors, or trustees are engaged in the administration or operation of a program 
of employee benefits for the employer's or association's own employees or the 
employees of its subsidiaries or affiliates, which program involves the use of 
insurance issued by an insurer, as long as the employers, associations, officers, 
directors, employees, or trustees are not in any manner compensated, directly or 
indirectly, by the company issuing the contracts.
d. An employee of an insurer or an organization employed by an insurer or an 
organization who inspects, rates, or classifies risks or supervises the training of 
insurance producers and who is not individually engaged in the sales, solicitation, 
or negotiation of insurance.
e. A person whose activities in this state are limited to advertising without the intent 
to solicit insurance in this state through communications in printed publications or 
other forms of electronic mass media whose distribution is not limited to residents 
of the state, provided that the person does not sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance 
that would insure risks residing, located, or to be performed in this state.
f. A person who is not a resident of this state who sells, solicits, or negotiates a 
contract of insurance for commercial property and casualty risks to an insured 
with risks located in more than one state insured under that contract, provided 
that that person is otherwise licensed as an insurance producer to sell, solicit, or 
negotiate that insurance in the state where the insured maintains its principal 
place of business and the contract of insurance insures risks located in that state.
g. A salaried full -time employee who counsels or advises that person's employer 
relative to the insurance interests of the employer or of the subsidiaries or 

business affiliates of the employer provided that the employee does not sell or 
solicit insurance or receive a commission.
h. An employee of an insurer or of an insurance producer who responds to requests 
from existing policyholders on existing policies provided that employee is not 
directly compensated based on the volume of premiums that may result from 
these services and provided that employee does not sell, solicit, or negotiate 
insurance.

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