[§431:32-104] Licensing and registration. (a) In accordance with sections 431:9A-103 and 431:9A-107.5, the commissioner may issue a limited lines travel insurance producer license to an individual or a business entity that has filed with the commissioner an application for a limited lines travel insurance producer license in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner. Each limited lines travel insurance producer shall be licensed to sell, solicit, or negotiate travel insurance through a licensed travel insurer. No person shall act as a limited lines travel insurance producer or travel retailer unless properly licensed or registered, respectively.
(b) No travel retailer shall offer and disseminate travel insurance under a limited lines travel insurance producer business entity license unless:
(c) Any travel retailer offering or disseminating travel insurance shall make available to prospective purchasers any brochures or other written materials that have been approved by the travel insurer. The materials shall include information that:
(d) No travel retailer employee or authorized representative who is not licensed as an insurance producer shall:
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, each travel retailer, and the travel retailer's employees and authorized representatives, whose insurance-related activities are limited to offering and disseminating travel insurance on behalf of and under the direction of a limited lines travel insurance producer meeting the conditions stated in this article may, upon registration by the limited lines travel insurance producer as described in subsection (b)(2), receive related compensation.
(f) Each limited lines travel insurance producer shall be responsible for the acts of each applicable travel retailer and use reasonable means to ensure compliance by the travel retailer with this article.
(g) Any person licensed in property and casualty lines of authority as an insurance producer may sell, solicit, and negotiate travel insurance; provided that no property and casualty insurance producer shall be required to become appointed by a travel insurer to sell, solicit, or negotiate travel insurance.
(h) Any limited lines travel insurance producer or travel retailer conducting business pursuant to this article shall be subject to any applicable provisions of this chapter relating to the revocation, suspension, or nonrenewal of licenses and the imposition of criminal or civil penalties. [L 2025, c 256, pt of §1]