Section 432:2-609 - Licensing of producers(a) Fraternal benefit society producers shall be licensed in accordance with the provisions governing producers in articles 7 and 9A of chapter 431, except that the appointment shall be made by the fraternal benefit society. Fraternal benefit society producers are not prohibited from obtaining additional licenses provided for in article 9 of chapter 431. No examination shall be required of an individual licensed to represent a fraternal benefit society prior to July 1, 1988.(b) No examination or license shall be required of any regular salaried officer, employee or member of a licensed society who devotes substantially all of the officer's, employee's or member's services to activities other than the solicitation of fraternal insurance contracts from the public, and who receives for the solicitation of such contracts no commission or other compensation directly dependent upon the amount of business obtained.(c) Any producer, representative, or member of a society who devotes, or intends to devote, less than fifty per cent of one's time to the solicitation and procurement of insurance contracts for such society shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection (a). Any person who in the preceding calendar year has solicited and procured life insurance contracts on behalf of any society in an amount of insurance in excess of $50,000, or, in the case of any other kind or kinds of insurance which the society might write, on the persons of more than twenty-five individuals and who has received or will receive a commission or other compensation therefor, shall be presumed to be devoting, or intending to devote, fifty per cent of the person's time to the solicitation or procurement of insurance contracts for such society.L 1987, c 347, pt of §2; am L 1999, c 246, §4; am L 2001, c 216, §27; am L 2002, c 155, §104; am L 2003, c 212, §123; am L 2006, c 154, §43 .