Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 39. COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION GATHERED BY INSURANCE INSTITUTIONS

33-39-17. Commissioner as appointed to accept service on behalf of insurance-support organization transacting business outside state.

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

For the purpose of this chapter, an insurance-support organization transacting business outside this state which has an effect on a person residing in this state shall be deemed to have appointed the Commissioner to accept service of process on its behalf, provided the Commissioner causes a copy of such service to be mailed forthwith by registered mail or statutory overnight delivery to the insurance-support organization at its last known principal place of business. The return postcard receipt for such mailing shall be sufficient proof that the same was properly mailed by 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 1981, § 33-39-17, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 615, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 4.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this Code section is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000.

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