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The New York Temporary Agent or Broker License

Temporary Agent or Broker License

Keeps a book of business being serviced when the person who held the license dies, is called up or becomes totally disabled.

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 Apply on one of the three grounds

    No state exam for this license

    • The licensee has died, and the applicant is the executor or administrator of the estate; or a surviving next of kin where no administrator has been appointed and no executor has qualified under a probated will; or the surviving member or members of a firm or association; or an officer or director of a corporation on the death of its only qualified sub-licensee, or that person's executor or administrator.

    • or

      The licensee is absent in any branch of the armed forces of the United States and has designated the applicant. A partnership or corporation qualifies where all of its sub-licensees are absent in that service.

    • or

      The licensee has become totally disabled and prevented from pursuing any of the duties of their occupation, and the applicant is their next of kin.

    Insurance Law 2109. It reaches the insurance agent, the title insurance agent and the insurance broker licenses, or an agent and broker license together. No written examination is required, and the course requirements of 2104(c) are set aside except as to age for the armed forces ground. 2109(b)(2) charges no fee for the license or for any renewal of it, except that renewing an armed forces designation costs half the ordinary fee.

    Read at nysenate.gov on 2026-08-21

New York asks the temporary licensee for no examination and sets aside the course requirement, so there is nothing for a school to sell against. No national seller prices a product for it.