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The North Dakota Surplus Lines Insurance Producer license

Surplus Lines Insurance Producer

Places business with insurers North Dakota has not admitted. It is not a sixth line: it is a second license laid on top of the producer one, and the Code says so in a single sentence. No pre-licensing course is required, and no separate examination either.

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 Hold the North Dakota producer license for the lines to be written

    No state exam for this license

    • a North Dakota insurance producer license qualified as to the line or lines of insurance to be written on a surplus lines basis

    N.D.C.C. 26.1-26-17, which is one sentence long: an applicant for a surplus lines insurance producer license must be licensed in this state as an insurance producer qualified as to the line or lines to be written. So the cost of this license is the cost of the underlying one, and the examination that stands in front of it is that line's rather than its own. Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont stack theirs on a producer license the same way, asking nothing further, where Iowa's excess and surplus lines wants a second examination on top and Utah's surplus lines producer wants years of experience as well.

    Read at ndlegis.gov on 2026-08-16

The North Dakota Insurance Department requires no pre-licensing course for this license, so there is nothing here to price.