(Formerly Sec. 38-92d). Application for license. Standards for issuance. Fee. Revocation or suspension. Hearing

(a) The commissioner may, upon receipt of the fee specified in section 38a-11, issue to any person who has attained the age of eighteen a license to act as a certified insurance consultant. The applicant for the license shall file with the commissioner a written application pursuant to section 38a-769, in such manner and form as the commissioner shall prescribe, stating the line or lines of insurance for which the applicant desires such a license. The commissioner may waive the requirement of an examination for a license to act as a certified insurance consultant for (1) property and casualty insurance in the case of any applicant who has been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter, Certified Insurance Counselor or Accredited Advisor in Insurance in the property and casualty line; (2) life and accident insurance in the case of any applicant who has been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Life Underwriter; and (3) all lines of insurance in the case of any applicant who has been awarded the professional designations of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and Chartered Life Underwriter. The commissioner may waive the examination for any applicant for a license to act as a certified insurance consultant who at any time within two years next preceding the date of application has been licensed in this state under a license of the same type as the license applied for. (b) Any license issued to act as a certified insurance consultant shall be in force until the thirtieth day of September in each odd-numbered year unless sooner revoked or suspended. The license may, in the discretion of the commissioner, be renewed biennially upon payment of the fee specified in section 38a-11. (c) The commissioner may at any time require such information as the commissioner deems necessary with respect to the business methods, policies and transactions of a licensee under this section. Any person who fails or refuses to furnish the commissioner, in such form as the commissioner may require, any such information within ten days after receiving a written request therefor shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty or more than two thousand five hundred dollars.