A. No person shall act as an insurer, and no insurer shall transact insurance in this state by direct solicitation or solicitation through the mails or otherwise, unless so authorized by a subsisting certificate of authority issued by the superintendent, except as to such transactions as are expressly otherwise provided for in the Insurance Code.
B. No insurer from offices or by personnel or facilities located in this state shall solicit insurance applications or otherwise transact insurance in another state or country unless it holds a subsisting certificate of authority granted by the superintendent authorizing it to transact the same kind or kinds of insurance in this state. As to domestic insurers, this provision is further subject to Section 579 [59A-34-33 NMSA 1978] (unauthorized business in other states) of the Insurance Code.
C. Any officer, director, agent, representative or employee of any insurer who wilfully authorizes, negotiates, makes or issues any insurance contract in violation of this section commits a misdemeanor, subject on conviction to a fine of not over one thousand dollars ($1,000).
History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 77.
Cross references. — For the Insurance Code, see 59A-1-1 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto.
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