{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-36-36-6217","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 36, § 36-6217","heading":"Term of license - Continuing education - Rules - Renewals","body":"of license - Provider fee.\n\nA. All licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of the\n\nInsurance Adjusters Licensing Act shall continue in force not longer\n\nthan twenty-four (24) months. The renewal dates for the licenses\n\nmay be staggered throughout the year by notifying licensees in\n\nwriting of the expiration and renewal date being assigned to the\n\nlicensees by the Insurance Commissioner and by making appropriate\n\nadjustments in the biennial licensing fee.\n\nB. Any licensee applying for renewal of a license as an\n\nadjuster shall have completed not less than twenty-four (24) clock\n\nhours of continuing insurance education, of which three (3) hours\n\nshall be in ethics, within the previous twenty-four (24) months\n\nprior to renewal of the license. The Insurance Commissioner shall\n\napprove courses and providers of continuing education for insurance\n\nadjusters as required by this section.\n\nThe Insurance Department may use one or more of the following to\n\nreview and provide a nonbinding recommendation to the Insurance\n\nCommissioner on approval or disapproval of courses and providers of\n\ncontinuing education:\n\n1. Employees of the Insurance Commissioner;\n\n2. A continuing education advisory committee;\n\n3. An independent service whose normal business activities\n\ninclude the review and approval of continuing education courses and\n\nproviders. The Commissioner may negotiate agreements with such\n\nindependent service to review documents and other materials\n\nsubmitted for approval of courses and providers and present the\n\nCommissioner with its nonbinding recommendation. The Commissioner\n\nmay require such independent service to collect the fee charged by\n\nthe independent service for reviewing materials provided for review\n\ndirectly from the course providers.\n\nC. An adjuster who, during the time period prior to renewal,\n\nparticipates in an approved professional designation program shall\n\nbe deemed to have met the biennial requirement for continuing\n\neducation. Each course in the curriculum for the program shall\n\ntotal a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours. Each approved\n\nprofessional designation program included in this section shall be\n\nreviewed for quality and compliance every two (2) years in\n\naccordance with standardized criteria promulgated by rule.\n\nContinuation of approved status is contingent upon the findings of\n\nthe review. The list of professional designation programs approved\n\nunder this subsection shall be made available to producers and\n\nproviders annually.\n\nD. The Insurance Department may promulgate rules providing that\n\ncourses or programs offered by professional associations shall\n\nqualify for presumptive continuing education credit approval. The\n\nrules shall include standardized criteria for reviewing the\n\nprofessional associations’ mission, membership, and other relevant\n\ninformation, and shall provide a procedure for the Department to\n\ndisallow a presumptively approved course. Professional association\n\ncourses approved in accordance with this subsection shall be\n\nreviewed every two (2) years to determine whether they continue to\n\nqualify for continuing education credit.\n\nE. The active service of a licensed adjuster as a member of a\n\ncontinuing education advisory committee, as described in paragraph 2\n\nof subsection B of this section, shall be deemed to qualify for\n\ncontinuing education credit on an hour-for-hour basis.\n\nF. 1. Each provider of continuing education shall, after\n\napproval by the Commissioner, submit an annual fee. A fee may be\n\nassessed for each course submission at the time it is first\n\nsubmitted for review and upon submission for renewal at expiration.\n\nAnnual fees and course submission fees shall be set forth as a rule\n\nby the Commissioner. The fees are payable to the Insurance\n\nCommissioner and shall be deposited in the State Insurance\n\nCommissioner Revolving Fund, created in Section 307.3 of this title,\nfee may be\n\nassessed for each course submission at the time it is first\n\nsubmitted for review and upon submission for renewal at expiration.\n\nAnnual fees and course submission fees shall be set forth as a rule\n\nby the Commissioner. The fees are payable to the Insurance\n\nCommissioner and shall be deposited in the State Insurance\n\nCommissioner Revolving Fund, created in Section 307.3 of this title,\n\nfor the purposes of fulfilling and accomplishing the conditions and\n\npurposes of the Oklahoma Producer Licensing Act and the Insurance\n\nAdjusters Licensing Act. Public-funded educational institutions,\n\nfederal agencies, nonprofit organizations, not-for-profit\n\norganizations and Oklahoma state agencies shall be exempt from this\n\nsubsection.\n\n2. The Commissioner may assess a civil penalty, after notice\n\nand opportunity for hearing, against a continuing education provider\n\nwho fails to comply with the requirements of the Insurance Adjusters\n\nLicensing Act, of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), for\n\neach occurrence. The civil penalty may be enforced in the same\n\nmanner in which civil judgments may be enforced.\n\nG. Subject to the right of the Commissioner to suspend, revoke,\n\nor refuse to renew a license of an adjuster, any such license may be\n\nrenewed by filing on the form prescribed by the Commissioner on or\n\nbefore the expiration date a written request by or on behalf of the\n\nlicensee for such renewal and proof of completion of the continuing\n\neducation requirement set forth in subsection B of this section,\n\naccompanied by payment of the renewal fee.\n\nH. If the request, proof of compliance with the continuing\n\neducation requirement and fee for renewal of a license as an\n\nadjuster are filed with the Commissioner prior to the expiration of\n\nthe existing license, the licensee may continue to act pursuant to\n\nsaid license, unless revoked or suspended prior to the expiration\n\ndate, until the issuance of a renewal license or until the\n\nexpiration of ten (10) days after the Commissioner has refused to\n\nrenew the license and has mailed notice of said refusal to the\n\nlicensee. Any request for renewal filed after the date of\n\nexpiration may be considered by the Commissioner as an application\n\nfor a new license.","path":["OK Code","Title 36"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os36.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b37545bfea20490be23866c1900f9a55837b6f895925407da9504a6e2c5df80e","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-36-36-6216.2","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-36-36-6218"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}