TITLE 41

INSURANCE

CHAPTER 58

PUBLIC ADJUSTER LICENSING ACT

41-5805.  Application for license. [EFFECTIVE UPON A STATE’S PARTICIPATION IN NAIC’S CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR CRIMINAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION] (1) A person applying for a public adjuster license shall make application to the department on an application form prescribed by the department.

(2)  The applicant shall declare under penalty of perjury and under penalty of refusal, suspension or revocation of the license that the statements made in the application are true, correct and complete to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief.

(3)  In order to make a determination of license eligibility, the department is authorized to require fingerprints of applicants and submit the fingerprints and the fee required to perform the criminal history record checks to the Idaho state police and the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) for state and national criminal history record checks; the department shall require a criminal history record check on each applicant in accordance with this chapter. The department shall require each applicant to submit a full set of fingerprints in order for the department to obtain and receive national criminal history records from the FBI criminal justice information services division.

(a)  The department may contract for the collection, transmission and resubmission of fingerprints required under this section. If the department does so, the fee for collecting, transmitting and retaining fingerprints shall be payable directly to the contractor by the person. The department may agree to a reasonable fingerprinting fee to be charged by the contractor.

(b)  The department is authorized to receive criminal history record information in lieu of the Idaho state police that submitted the fingerprints to the FBI.

History:

[41-5805, added 2008, ch. 179, sec. 1, p. 533.]