416-A:15 Title Insurance Agent's License. –
I. Title insurance agents shall be licensed in the manner provided for agents of insurance companies by RSA 402-J, except as provided in subparagraphs (a) and (b).
(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the licensing of an attorney at law in good standing and admitted to practice before the supreme court of New Hampshire for the purpose of an examination of title and report of title thereon to a title insurance company upon which such title insurance company may issue a policy of title insurance.
(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the licensing of a law firm acting as agent of a title insurance company; provided that any sale, solicitation, or negotiation of a contract of title insurance is conducted by a duly licensed title insurance agent.
II. Employees of a corporate contractual agent of a title insurance company, authorized by such company, or such contractual agent, to issue or countersign binders or policies in behalf of such title insurance company shall be licensed.
III. The commissioner of insurance may require such examination of applicants for producer licenses as title insurance agents as he or she shall consider necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.