Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 14. DOMESTIC STOCK AND MUTUAL INSURERS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

33-14-7. Name of corporation.

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

(a)
No name shall be adopted by a domestic mutual or stock insurance corporation which is so similar to any name already in use by any such existing corporation, company, or association organized or doing business in this state as to be confusing or misleading and the Commissioner shall not approve an application from the applicant nor shall the Secretary of State issue a charter to the applicant.#
(b)
The name of the corporation shall include the word ‘‘company’’ or ‘‘corporation’’ or have such word or words, abbreviation, suffix, or prefix included in the name or attached to it in such a manner as will clearly indicate that it is a corporation.#
(c)
Except as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 33-14-76 with regard to converted insurers, if the corporation is a mutual insurer, the term ‘‘mutual’’ shall also be a part of the name.#

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.

Code 1933, § 56-1507, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 300, § 1.

For note on the 1994 amendment of this Code section, see 11 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 196 (1994).

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