O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-14-42 (2019)

Illegal dividends

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) Any director of a domestic stock insurer who votes for or concurs in declaration or payment of an illegal dividend to stockholders shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be jointly and severally liable together with other such directors for any loss thereby sustained by the insurer.

(b) The stockholders receiving such an illegal dividend shall be liable in the amount thereof to the insurer.

(c) The Commissioner may revoke or suspend the certificate of authority of an insurer which has declared or paid an illegal dividend.

History

Code 1933, § 56-1525, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 18 C.J.S., Corporations, § 371 et seq. 44 C.J.S., Insurance, §§ 180, 196, 199. 45 C.J.S., Insurance, § 695.

ALR. - Apportionment of divisible surplus of insurance company between different policies, 108 A.L.R. 1212.