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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

33-1-8. Making of false statements; reporting of such statements.

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  1. Any director, officer, agent, or employee of any insurance company who willfully and knowingly subscribes, makes, or concurs in making any annual or other statement required by law containing any material statement which is false shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to report all such misrepresentations and false statements to the appropriate prosecuting attorney of the circuit or county in which they shall occur, except as otherwise provided.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 56-9908, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 337, § 1-4/SB 132. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, in the second sentence, substituted ‘‘appropriate prosecuting attorney’’ for ‘‘district attorney’’ and added ‘‘, except as otherwise provided’’ at the end.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t33-ch1-22-(v24)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V24, 2020 edition, page 31; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4ecec175d949.