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215 ILCS 5/500-20

(215 ILCS 5/500-20)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

Sec. 500-20.

Exceptions to licensing.

(a) Nothing in this Article shall 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.

(b) A license as an insurance producer shall not be required of the
following:

(1) 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:

(A) the officer's, director's, 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;

(B) the officer's, director's, 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

(C) the officer, director, or employee is acting

in the capacity of a special agent or agency supervisor assisting insurance producers if 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;

(2) a person who secures and furnishes information

for the purpose of group life insurance, group property and casualty insurance, group annuities, or group or blanket accident and health insurance or for the purpose of enrolling individuals under plans, issuing certificates under plans or otherwise assisting in administering plans or who performs administrative services related to mass marketed property and casualty insurance, if no commission is paid to the person for the service;

(3) 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;

(4) employees of insurers or organizations employed

by insurers who are engaging in the inspection, rating, or classification of risks or in the supervision of the training of insurance producers and who are not individually engaged in the sale, solicitation, or negotiation of insurance;

(5) 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 forms of electronic mass media whose distribution is not limited to residents of this 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;

(6) 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 the 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; or

(7) a salaried, full-time employee who counsels or

advises his or her 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.

(Source: P.A. 92-386, eff. 1-1-02.)