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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="8-505" title_number="8" title_name="Entities That Act as Insurers" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Reinsurance Intermediaries">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On the form that the Commissioner provides, each nonresident applicant for a license must appoint the Commissioner as attorney for service of process issued against the applicant in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The appointment:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is irrevocable;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>binds the applicant and any successor in interest; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>remains in effect as long as there is in force in the State a contract made by the applicant or an obligation arising from a contract made by the applicant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each nonresident applicant for a license shall provide the Commissioner with the name and address of a resident of the State on whom notice and orders of the Commissioner and process issued against the applicant may be served.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A nonresident licensee promptly shall notify the Commissioner of a change in its designated agent for service.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A change is not effective until acknowledged by the Commissioner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
