§ 22:1808.9 — Commissions

Louisiana § 22:1808.9

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 22: Insurance

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§1808.9. Commissions
A. No person or business entity licensed and acting as an insurance consultant under
a written agreement pursuant to R.S. 22:1808.11, shall accept any commission, service fee,
brokerage, or other valuable consideration for selling, soliciting, or negotiating insurance in
this state.
B.(1) No member of an insurance advisory committee of any state agency, board,
commission, or of any political subdivision of this state, including but not limited to school
boards, levee boards, deep water port commissions, deep water port, harbor and terminal
districts, and the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, shall split, pass on, or share
with any insurance consultant or other person who is not a member of his own firm or
corporation and is not a member of such an insurance advisory committee, all or any portion
of the commission derived by such committee from the purchase of insurance by such state
agency, board, commission, or political subdivision of the state without express authorization
by official action of such state agency, board, commission, or political subdivision of the
state. Any insurance consultant or other person who is not a member of such firm or
corporation and is not a member of such an insurance advisory committee who receives
without authorization all or any portion of such commission shall also be in violation of this
Section.
(2) Any person who violates the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction,
be fined not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars per violation,
or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
(3) Any conviction for a violation of the provisions of this Section shall constitute
grounds for suspension or revocation by the commissioner of insurance of the license of such
insurance consultant, in addition to those grounds of R.S. 22:1808.8.

Legislative History

Acts 2016, No. 312, §1.