Skip to content
Georgia Commons
Menu

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 17. RECIPROCAL INSURERS

33-17-8. Filing of bond by attorney for insurer; amount of bond; cancellation of bond.

Active

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

  1. (a)

    Concurrently with the filing of the declaration provided for in Code Section 33-17-6, the attorney of a domestic reciprocal insurer shall file with the Commissioner a bond in favor of the Commissioner for the benefit of all persons damaged as a result of breach by the attorney of the conditions of his or her bond as set forth in subsection (b) of this Code section. The bond shall be executed by the attorney and by an authorized corporate surety and shall be subject to the Commissioner’s approval.#

  2. (b)

    The bond shall be in the penal sum of $25,000.00, aggregate in form, conditioned that the attorney will faithfully account for all moneys and other property of the insurer coming into his or her hands and that he or she will not withdraw or appropriate to his or her own use from the funds of the insurer any moneys or property to which he or she is not entitled under the power of attorney.#

  3. (c)

    The bond shall provide that it is not subject to cancellation unless 30 days’ advance notice in writing of cancellation is given to both the attorney and the Commissioner.#

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, § 56-2112, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 337, § 1-80/SB 132. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, inserted ‘‘or her’’ in the first sentence of subsection (a) and twice in subsection (b), and inserted ‘‘or she’’ twice in subsection (b).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 770; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4ecec175d949.