STATE OF NEW YORK
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3942
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred 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
