Sec.38a-782a-1. Definitions

As used in sections 38a-782a-1 to 38a-782a-17, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:

(1) "Audit" means: (A) department or designee activity to monitor the offering of courses or examinations, including visits to classrooms, test sites, and administrative offices where documentation of individual attendance and completion records, and documentation of instructor qualifications pursuant to section 38a-782a-6 are maintained; and (B) re-evaluating approved classroom course and seminar outlines, and self-study programs based on current guidelines;

(2) "Biennium" means, with respect to each individual producer, the two-year period ending on the expiration date of the producer's insurance license;

(3) "Class" means a course designed to be presented live to a group of producers using lecture, video, satellite, or other audio-visual presentation material which has an approved instructor or monitor present in the classroom during the presentation;

(4) "Commissioner" means the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Connecticut;

(5) "Completion" means: (A) the attainment by individuals enrolled in a self study course of a passing grade of seventy percent or better on an examination monitored by an impartial and disinterested person; or (B) Class attendance of at least eighty percent of sessions approved for the course; or (C) Seminar attendance for the full time assigned for each workshop or break-out session selected;

(6) "Course" means a program of instruction approved by the commissioner for a specific number of continuing education credit hours;

(7) "Credit hour" means a value assigned to a course approved by the commissioner that is equivalent to fifty minutes of classroom instruction;

(8) "Department" means the Insurance Department of the State of Connecticut;

(9) "Evaluation and assessment methods" means a methodology to determine the proficiency attained by a producer in the subject matter of a course upon completion of such course;

(10) "Line of authority" means: (A) property and casualty, which includes property, casualty, property and casualty, bail bonds, surety and surplus lines; and (B) life and health, which includes life, health, life and health, fixed annuities, variable life and variable annuities;

(11) "Person" means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, or other legal entity;

(12) "Self-study course" means a course: (A) that does not require a student to attend an organized class or seminar; (B) that includes an examination adequately covering course materials set forth in the course outline; and (C) for which credits will be granted only upon achieving a score of seventy percent or better on the examination;

(13) "Seminar" means a course designed to be presented using lecture, video, satellite, or other audio-visual presentation material by an individual or individuals with special expertise and which has an approved speaker or instructor present in the classroom during the presentation; and

(14) "Sponsor" means any person approved or seeking approval to offer a continuing education course and charged with approving instructors for such course.

(Adopted effective February 1, 1998; Amended February 1, 2000; Amended September 17, 2002; Amended November 2, 2006)