Bill Text: NY S05762 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the character witness requirement for independent insurance adjuster licenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - SIGNED CHAP.360 [S05762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05762-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5762

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 18, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  removing  certain
          requirements for independent insurance adjuster licenses

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subsection (d) of section 2108 of the insur-
     2  ance law, as renumbered by section 1 of subpart F of part II of  chapter
     3  55 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (3)  [Such]  Except in the case of an application for a license to act
     5  as an independent adjuster, such application shall be  approved,  as  to
     6  each  person  or  individual  so signing the same, by not less than five
     7  reputable citizens of the community in which such applicant  resides  or
     8  transacts  business,  each  of  whom  shall  certify  that he or she has
     9  personally known the person or individual for a period of at least  five
    10  years  prior  to the filing of such application, that he or she has read
    11  such application and believes each of the statements made therein to  be
    12  true,  that  such person is honest, of good character and competent, and
    13  not related or connected  to  the  person  so  certifying  by  blood  or
    14  marriage.  The  certificate  of  approval  shall  be  subscribed by such
    15  reputable citizens and affirmed by them as true under the  penalties  of
    16  perjury.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01930-01-1