Duty of producers to obtain license -- Risk retention groups -- Purchasing groups

(1) A person may do the following only if the person is licensed as an insurance producer or is exempt from licensure under Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries: (a) solicit, negotiate, or procure liability insurance in this state from a risk retention group; (b) solicit, negotiate, or procure liability insurance in this state for a purchasing group from an authorized insurer or a risk retention group; and (c) solicit, negotiate, or procure liability insurance coverage in this state for any member of a purchasing group under a purchasing group's policy. (2) (a) A person may not act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance in this state for a purchasing group from an authorized insurer or a risk retention group chartered in a state unless that person is licensed as an insurance producer, or is exempt from licensure under Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries. (b) A person may not act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance coverage in this state for any member of a purchasing group under a purchasing group's policy unless that person is licensed as an insurance producer, or is exempt from licensure under Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries. (c) A person may not act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance from an insurer not authorized to do business in this state on behalf of a purchasing group located in this state unless that person is licensed as a surplus lines producer or excess lines producer or is exempt from licensure under Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries. (3) For purposes of acting as a producer for a risk retention group or purchasing group pursuant to Subsections (1) and (2), the requirement of residence in this state does not apply. (4) A person licensed pursuant to Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing - Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries, on business placed with a risk retention group or written through a purchasing group, shall inform each prospective insured of the provisions of the notice required by Subsection 31A-15-204(7) in the case of a purchasing group.