Okla. Stat. tit. 36, § 36-6217

of license - Provider fee.

A. All licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of the

Insurance Adjusters Licensing Act shall continue in force not longer

than twenty-four (24) months. The renewal dates for the licenses

may be staggered throughout the year by notifying licensees in

writing of the expiration and renewal date being assigned to the

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licensees by the Insurance Commissioner and by making appropriate

adjustments in the biennial licensing fee.

B. Any licensee applying for renewal of a license as an

adjuster shall have completed not less than twenty-four (24) clock

hours of continuing insurance education, of which three (3) hours

shall be in ethics, within the previous twenty-four (24) months

prior to renewal of the license. The Insurance Commissioner shall

approve courses and providers of continuing education for insurance

adjusters as required by this section.

The Insurance Department may use one or more of the following to

review and provide a nonbinding recommendation to the Insurance

Commissioner on approval or disapproval of courses and providers of

continuing education:

1. Employees of the Insurance Commissioner;

2. A continuing education advisory committee;

3. An independent service whose normal business activities

include the review and approval of continuing education courses and

providers. The Commissioner may negotiate agreements with such

independent service to review documents and other materials

submitted for approval of courses and providers and present the

Commissioner with its nonbinding recommendation. The Commissioner

may require such independent service to collect the fee charged by

the independent service for reviewing materials provided for review

directly from the course providers.

C. An adjuster who, during the time period prior to renewal,

participates in an approved professional designation program shall

be deemed to have met the biennial requirement for continuing

education. Each course in the curriculum for the program shall

total a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours. Each approved

professional designation program included in this section shall be

reviewed for quality and compliance every two (2) years in

accordance with standardized criteria promulgated by rule.

Continuation of approved status is contingent upon the findings of

the review. The list of professional designation programs approved

under this subsection shall be made available to producers and

providers annually.

D. The Insurance Department may promulgate rules providing that

courses or programs offered by professional associations shall

qualify for presumptive continuing education credit approval. The

rules shall include standardized criteria for reviewing the

professional associations’ mission, membership, and other relevant

information, and shall provide a procedure for the Department to

disallow a presumptively approved course. Professional association

courses approved in accordance with this subsection shall be

reviewed every two (2) years to determine whether they continue to

qualify for continuing education credit.

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E. The active service of a licensed adjuster as a member of a

continuing education advisory committee, as described in paragraph 2

of subsection B of this section, shall be deemed to qualify for

continuing education credit on an hour-for-hour basis.

F. 1. Each provider of continuing education shall, after

approval by the Commissioner, submit an annual fee. A fee may be

assessed for each course submission at the time it is first

submitted for review and upon submission for renewal at expiration.

Annual fees and course submission fees shall be set forth as a rule

by the Commissioner. The fees are payable to the Insurance

Commissioner and shall be deposited in the State Insurance

Commissioner Revolving Fund, created in Section 307.3 of this title,
fee may be

assessed for each course submission at the time it is first

submitted for review and upon submission for renewal at expiration.

Annual fees and course submission fees shall be set forth as a rule

by the Commissioner. The fees are payable to the Insurance

Commissioner and shall be deposited in the State Insurance

Commissioner Revolving Fund, created in Section 307.3 of this title,

for the purposes of fulfilling and accomplishing the conditions and

purposes of the Oklahoma Producer Licensing Act and the Insurance

Adjusters Licensing Act. Public-funded educational institutions,

federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, not-for-profit

organizations and Oklahoma state agencies shall be exempt from this

subsection.

2. The Commissioner may assess a civil penalty, after notice

and opportunity for hearing, against a continuing education provider

who fails to comply with the requirements of the Insurance Adjusters

Licensing Act, of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), for

each occurrence. The civil penalty may be enforced in the same

manner in which civil judgments may be enforced.

G. Subject to the right of the Commissioner to suspend, revoke,

or refuse to renew a license of an adjuster, any such license may be

renewed by filing on the form prescribed by the Commissioner on or

before the expiration date a written request by or on behalf of the

licensee for such renewal and proof of completion of the continuing

education requirement set forth in subsection B of this section,

accompanied by payment of the renewal fee.

H. If the request, proof of compliance with the continuing

education requirement and fee for renewal of a license as an

adjuster are filed with the Commissioner prior to the expiration of

the existing license, the licensee may continue to act pursuant to

said license, unless revoked or suspended prior to the expiration

date, until the issuance of a renewal license or until the

expiration of ten (10) days after the Commissioner has refused to

renew the license and has mailed notice of said refusal to the

licensee. Any request for renewal filed after the date of

expiration may be considered by the Commissioner as an application

for a new license.