(2) No agent or other representative of any such life insurer or fraternal benefit society shall pay any commission or other compensation to any person for any services of the kind specified in paragraph one hereof, except to a licensed life insurance agent of such insurer or of such society as the case may be.

(3) No insurer, fraternal benefit society or health maintenance organization doing business in this state and no agent or other representative thereof shall pay any commission or other compensation to any person, firm, association or corporation for services in soliciting, negotiating or selling in this state any new contract of accident or health insurance or any new health maintenance organization contract, except to a licensed accident and health insurance agent of such insurer, such society or health maintenance organization, or to a licensed insurance broker of this state, and except to a person described in paragraph two or three of subsection (a) of section two thousand one hundred one of this article. * (4) Services of the kind specified in this subsection shall not include the referral of a person to a licensed insurance agent or broker that does not include a discussion of specific insurance policy terms and conditions and where the compensation for referral is not based upon the purchase of insurance by such person. * NB Repealed September 10, 2024

(b) If any licensed life insurance agent who or which has received an application for a life insurance or annuity contract is unable after reasonable diligence to obtain all or any part of such insurance from the life insurer or insurers which he or it is licensed to represent, such agent may solicit, negotiate or sell such insurance, to the extent to which it is declined by such insurer or insurers, from any other authorized life insurer or insurers, with the consent of the person making such application; but no such agent shall receive any commission or other compensation for his services in connection therewith from any insurer unless he is licensed as agent of such insurer at the time when he receives such compensation.