15016
Effective Jan 1, 2017Repealed and added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 833, Sec. 12. (SB 488) Effective January 1, 2017.
- (a) The apprentice public insurance adjuster license is a license to facilitate the training necessary to ensure reasonable competency to fulfill the responsibilities of a public insurance adjuster as defined in Section 15007.
(b) The apprentice public insurance adjuster license is subject to the following terms and conditions:
- (1) The applicant shall submit, with an application for an initial apprentice public insurance adjuster license, an attestation or certification from a licensed public insurance adjuster assuming responsibility for all actions of that applicant.
- (2) The apprentice public insurance adjuster is authorized to adjust claims only in California.
- (3) The applicant is required to qualify under subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 15011.
- (4) The applicant is required to pay a license fee of one hundred dollars ($100).
- (5) The applicant is required to comply with any requirement to file supplementary documents, affidavits, and statements as may be necessary to obtain a full disclosure of the information that will aid the commissioner in determining whether the prerequisites for the license have been met.
- (6) The apprentice public insurance adjuster shall not be required to take and successfully complete the prescribed public insurance adjuster examination.
- (7) The licensee shall at all times be an employee of a public insurance adjuster and be subject to training, direction, and control by a licensed public insurance adjuster.
- (8) The apprentice public insurance adjuster license is for a period not to exceed 12 months, and the license shall not be renewed.
- (9) The licensee is restricted to participation in factual investigation, tentative closing, and solicitation of losses subject to the review and final determination of a licensed public insurance adjuster.
- (10) The licensee shall be subject to suspension, revocation, or conditions in accordance with Section 1668.
- (11) The applicant shall submit two photographs, not older than six months, of the applicant, of a type prescribed by the commissioner, and one classifiable set of his or her fingerprints, to be sent to a live scan fingerprint provider as directed by the department, if fingerprints are not submitted in person with a live scan fingerprinting service provider certified by the Department of Justice.
- (12) The apprentice public insurance adjuster shall complete the 20-hour prelicensing education course of study as defined in Section 15009.1 during the license period.