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The New Hampshire Temporary license

Temporary

A 180 day producer license issued without an examination to keep a business running after a death, a disability or a call-up. The commissioner can attach a sponsor to it and can revoke it at will.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Stand in for a producer who has died, been disabled or gone into the armed forces

    No state exam for this license

    • A member or employee of a business entity licensed as an insurance producer, on the death or disability of an individual designated in the business entity application or the license; the designee of a licensed producer entering active service in the armed forces; or anybody else where the commissioner deems the public interest will best be served

    RSA 402-J:11, I lets the commissioner issue a temporary producer license for up to 180 days without an examination where it is necessary for the servicing of an insurance business, in three cases. The first two are contingencies about somebody else’s license, a death or disability inside a licensed business entity and a producer entering active service. The third is open: "in any other circumstance where the commissioner deems that the public interest will best be served by the issuance of a license", which makes New Hampshire’s temporary license wider than Alaska’s four closed contingencies and than Rhode Island’s four. What balances it is paragraph II, which is a list of powers rather than of rights: the commissioner may limit the authority by order, may require a suitable sponsor who is a licensed producer or insurer and who assumes responsibility for everything the temporary licensee does, and may revoke the license outright if the interest of insureds or the public is endangered. The license also ends by operation of law when the owner or the personal representative disposes of the business, however much of the 180 days is left. 180 days is the term several states here settle on, among them Illinois, Ohio, Kansas and Colorado, while Alaska allows 90 with one renewal and New York 120.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-19

No national seller sells a course for this license. Nothing could: it is issued precisely because the holder has not taken an examination, it lasts 180 days, and nobody applies for it in advance.