Georgia Code, Title 33, Chapter 2 - Department and Commissioner of Insurance

• § 33-2-1 - Creation of Department; Commissioner Chief Officer of Department; Powers and Duties of Department and Commissioner Generally
  There is created the Insurance Department of the State of Georgia. The chief officer of such department shall be the Commissioner of Insurance. The...
• § 33-2-2 - Seal of Commissioner
  The Commissioner shall have an official seal of such design as he or she shall select with the approval of the Governor.
• § 33-2-3 - Organization of Department by Commissioner
  The Commissioner shall set up within the department such divisions or sections as he may deem necessary for the appropriate performance of the duties...
• § 33-2-4 - Appointment and Removal of Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner and Other Deputies
  (a) The Commissioner shall appoint a chief deputy insurance commissioner and such other deputies as may be necessary to assist him in the performance...
• § 33-2-5 - Appointment of Personnel; Possession of Financial Interest; Additional Remuneration for Services
  (a) The Commissioner may appoint and prescribe the duties of such assistants, examiners, actuaries, clerks, and employees as may be necessary to discharge the...
• § 33-2-6 - Delegated Authority
  (a) Any authority, power, or duty vested in the Commissioner by any provision of this title may be exercised, discharged, or performed by any...
• § 33-2-7 - Maintenance of Records, Books, or Papers by Commissioner Generally; Furnishing of Copies; Disposal of Records
  (a) The Commissioner shall enter in permanent form records of the official transactions, filings, examinations, investigations, and proceedings of his office and shall keep...
• § 33-2-8 - Annual Report of Commissioner
  As early in the calendar year as reasonably possible, the Commissioner annually shall compile a report showing, with respect to the preceding calendar year:...
• § 33-2-8.1 - Purpose of Code Section; Preparation by Commissioner of Supplemental Report on Property and Casualty Insurance; Contents of Report; Request for Information
  (a) The General Assembly and the public have been confronted with a need for relevant and verifiable information on the property and casualty insurance...
• § 33-2-8.2 - Commissioner's Quarterly Report to Legislative Committees on Insurance; Contents
  During the first week of each quarter, the Commissioner shall transmit to the chairperson of the House Committee on Insurance and the chairperson of...
• § 33-2-9 - Rules and Regulations
  (a) The Commissioner shall have full power and authority to make rules and regulations for the following purposes: (1) To organize the department and...
• § 33-2-10 - Issuance and Service of Orders and Notices
  (a) Orders and notices of the Commissioner shall be effective only when they are in writing and signed by him or by his authority.(b)...
• § 33-2-11 - Examination of Insurers and Organizations; Effect of Insurer's Change of Domicile From Georgia
  (a) Whenever the Commissioner shall deem it expedient, the Commissioner shall examine, either in person or by some examiner duly authorized by the Commissioner,...
• § 33-2-12 - Examination of Agents, Solicitors, Brokers, Counselors, Adjusters, Managers, and Promoters
  For the purpose of ascertaining their compliance with this title, when he deems it necessary in the public interest, the Commissioner may examine the...
• § 33-2-13 - Access of Commissioner to Records; Correction of Inadequate or Incorrect Accounts
  (a) Every person being examined, its officers, employees, and representatives shall produce and make freely accessible to the Commissioner the accounts, records, documents, and...
• § 33-2-14 - Preparation of Written Reports of Examinations Generally; Certification of Reports; Admissibility in Evidence; Notice and Hearing on Reports; Use of Examination Documents
  (a) The Commissioner may make a full written report of each examination made by him containing only facts ascertained from the accounts, records, and...
• § 33-2-15 - Payment of Expenses of Examinations; Immunity of Examiners
  (a) At the direction of the Commissioner, the insurer or other person so examined shall pay all the actual travel and living expenses of...
• § 33-2-16 - Powers of Commissioner As to Evidence and Witnesses; Payment of Witness Fees and Expenses; Subpoenas; Giving of False Testimony
  (a) With respect to the subject of any examination, investigation, or hearing conducted by him or his duly authorized representative, the Commissioner may take...
• § 33-2-17 - Conduct of Hearings by Commissioner Generally; Demands for Hearings
  (a) The Commissioner may hold hearings for any purpose within the scope of this title as he may deem necessary.(b) He shall hold a...
• § 33-2-18 - Place of Hearings; Hearings to Be Open to Public
  The hearing shall be held at the place designated by the Commissioner and shall be open to the public.
• § 33-2-19 - Notice of Hearings Generally
  Not less than ten days in advance the Commissioner shall give notice of the time and place of the hearing stating the matters to...
• § 33-2-20 - Notice to Show Cause
  If any person is entitled to a hearing by any provision of this title before any proposed action is taken, the notice of the...
• § 33-2-21 - Presiding Officer At Hearing; Rights of Parties; Intervention; Pleading and Evidence; Record of Proceedings; Rehearing or Reargument
  (a) The hearing shall be presided over by the Commissioner or his designated representative.(b) The Commissioner shall allow any party to the hearing to...
• § 33-2-22 - Adjournment of Hearings; Effect of Nonattendance
  (a) The Commissioner may adjourn any hearing from time to time and from place to place without other notice of the adjourned hearing than...
• § 33-2-23 - Issuance of Order on Hearing; Contents
  (a) Within 30 days after termination of the hearing or of any rehearing or reargument, the Commissioner shall make his order thereon covering matters...
• § 33-2-24 - Enforcement of Title and Rules, Regulations, and Orders; Issuance of Orders Without Hearings; Civil Actions; Criminal Violations; Penalties
  (a) Whenever it may appear to the Commissioner, either upon investigation or otherwise, that any person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is...
• § 33-2-25 - Effect of Chapter Upon Power of Commissioner or Superior Courts to Enforce Title; Construction of Grants of Power Contained in Chapter
  Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to limit or repeal any power or authority elsewhere granted the Commissioner or the superior courts in...
• § 33-2-26 - Judicial Review of Actions of Commissioner -- Persons Entitled to Appeal; Procedure Generally
  An appeal from the Commissioner shall be taken only from an order on hearing or with respect to a matter as to which the...
• § 33-2-27 - Judicial Review of Actions of Commissioner -- Pleading and Procedure; Powers of Reviewing Court Generally
  (a) The form of proceeding for judicial review shall be by a petition in the Superior Court of Fulton County, a copy of which...
• § 33-2-28 - Judicial Review of Actions of Commissioner -- Scope of Review; Disposition of Action by Reviewing Court
  (a) Unless review of the action complained of is required by law to be de novo: (1) In cases in which proceedings have been...
• § 33-2-29 - Disposition of Amounts Collected Under Title Generally; Allowance of Refunds and Credits
  The Commissioner shall promptly pay all taxes, fees, dues, charges, and penalties and interest which he is authorized to collect under this title to...
• § 33-2-30 - Limitation Period for Issuance of Notice of Deficiency Assessment or Execution Thereon; Waiver of Limitations
  (a) Except in the case of fraud or failure to file a return required by this title, every notice of a deficiency assessment or...
• § 33-2-31 - Extension of Time for Filing Tax Return or Paying Tax; Payment of Interest by Taxpayer Granted Extension
  The Commissioner for good cause shown may extend for no more than 30 days the time for filing a tax return or paying any...
• § 33-2-32 - Fees
  (a) Each corporation or individual, of whatever name or class, which now has or which may hereafter have bonds or securities on deposit as...
• § 33-2-33 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) List of Written Requests for Assistance by Citizens Against Insurers
  (a) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to compile and release annually for public dissemination a list of all written requests for...
• § 33-2-34 - Insurance Compliance Self-Evaluative Privilege.
  (a) To encourage insurance companies and persons conducting activities regulated under this title, both to conduct voluntary internal audits of their compliance programs and...

Last modified: October 14, 2016