South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 39 - Insurance Premium Service Companies
Section 38-39-20. License required; fee; interrogatories.

(a) No person may engage in the business of servicing insurance premiums in this State without first obtaining a license from the director or his designee. Any person who engages in the business of servicing insurance premiums in this State without obtaining a license is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each transaction constitutes a separate offense.
(b) The biennial license fee is one thousand dollars payable to the department by March 1, 2010, and biennially after that time. These funds are to be deposited in the general fund of the State.
(c) The person to whom the license is issued shall file sworn answers, subject to the penalties of perjury, to any interrogatories the director or his designee may require. The director or his designee has authority to require the applicant to disclose the identity of all stockholders, partners, officers, and employees. He may refuse to issue or renew a license in the name of any firm, partnership, or corporation if he is not satisfied that any officer, employee, stockholder, or partner of it who may materially influence the applicant's conduct meets the standards of this chapter.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-39-20 [1962 Code Section 37-771; 1971 (57) 744] recodified as Section 38-75-320 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; Former 1976 Code Section 38-27-30 [1962 Code Section 37-1303; 1967 (55) 273; 1971 (57) 709; 1985 Act No. 4, Section 1] recodified as Section 38-39-20 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 374, Section 14; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 653; 2009 Act No. 69, Section 2, eff June 2, 2009.

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