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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 31.03.13.02" title_num="31" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="13" heading="Producer Register.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Required. An insurer authorized to transact the business of insurance in the State shall maintain a producer register.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Form and Content.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Within 30 days after appointing an insurance producer, an insurer shall add the following information to the insurer's producer register:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The Maryland license number of the insurance producer;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>If the insurance producer is an individual, the first and last name and residence or business address of the individual;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>If the insurance producer is a business entity:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>The tax ID number of the insurance producer;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The name of the business entity; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>The address of the business entity; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>The date that the insurance producer was appointed.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Within 30 days after the effective date of an insurer's termination of an appointment of an insurance producer, the insurer shall add the following information to the insurer's producer register:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The effective date of the termination of the appointment; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>An identifier that indicates if the termination was wholly or partly the result of a belief that the insurance producer engaged or is engaging in any of the activities set forth in Insurance Article, §10-126, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Each item that an insurer is required to include in its producer register under §B(1) and (2) of this regulation shall be entered:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>On a separate line or space; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>If the producer register is maintained electronically, in a separate searchable field.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>If an insurer maintains its producer register electronically, the insurer shall maintain the producer register in a manner that allows the information in the producer register to be retrieved within 10 working days after a request from the Insurance Commissioner.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>