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60K.05 Fraternal benefit society representatives.

Representatives of fraternal benefit societies who solicit and negotiate insurance contracts shall be deemed to be insurance agents and subject to the licensing requirements as set forth in section 60K.03, subdivision 1; provided, that no insurance agent's license shall be required of:

(1) any officer, employee, or secretary of a fraternal benefit society or of any subordinate lodge or branch who devotes substantially all of that person's time to activities other than the solicitation or negotiation of insurance contracts and who receives no commission or other compensation directly dependent upon the number or amount of contracts solicited or negotiated; or

(2) any agent or representative of a fraternal benefit society who devotes, or intends to devote, less than 50 percent of that person's time to the solicitation and procurement of insurance contracts for that society. Any person who in the preceding calendar year has solicited and procured life insurance in excess of $50,000 face amount, or, in the case of any other kinds of insurance which the society may write, on the persons of more than 25 individuals, and who has received or will receive a commission or other compensation in the total amount of $1,000 or more, shall be presumed to be devoting, or intending to devote, 50 percent of that person's time to the solicitation or procurement of insurance contracts for that society.

HIST: 1992 c 564 art 3 s 7

* NOTE: This section is repealed by Laws 2001, chapter 117, article *1, section 28, effective July 1, 2002. Laws 2001, chapter 117, article *1, section 29.

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