(a) Application for an acceptance of any nonresident license provided under this chapter shall thereby be deemed to constitute irrevocable appointment of the Insurance Commissioner as the agent of the licensee for the acceptance of service of process issued in this state in any action or proceeding against the licensee arising out of such licensing or at any time out of transactions under the license.
(b)
(1) Duplicate copies of the process shall be served upon the commissioner or upon his or her deputy, assistant, or other person in charge of his or her office during his absence.
(2) Upon receiving the service, the commissioner shall promptly forward a copy of it by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the nonresident licensee at his or her business address last of record with the commissioner.
(3) When process is served upon the commissioner as a nonresident's process agent, the licensee shall be required to appear, answer, or plead within thirty (30) days after date of the mailing of the copy of the process by the commissioner.
(4) Process served upon the commissioner and a copy forwarded shall for all purposes constitute service upon the person licensed.
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