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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:22:1543",
  "title_number": "22",
  "section_number": "1543",
  "citation": "R.S. 22:1543",
  "heading": "License required",
  "text": "A. No person shall act as or hold himself out to be an insurance producer unless licensed by the Department of Insurance.\n\nB. No insurance producer shall sell, solicit, make an application for, procure, negotiate for, or place for others, any policies for any lines of insurance as to which he is not then qualified and duly licensed in this state.",
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "22",
      "name": "INSURANCE CODE"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "5",
      "name": "PRODUCERS AND OTHER REGULATED ENTITIES"
    },
    {
      "level": "part",
      "number": "I",
      "name": "PRODUCERS"
    },
    {
      "level": "subpart",
      "number": "A",
      "name": "QUALIFICATIONS AND LICENSING"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Title 22 › Chapter 5 › Part I › Subpart A",
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      "act_year": 2001,
      "act_number": 158,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": "2002-01-01",
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    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 2001, No. 158, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002; Redesignated from R.S. 22:1133 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.",
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