O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-5-3 (2019)

Penalty for violations of chapter

✓ 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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Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1933, § 56-9915, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.

ARTICLE 2 SURPLUS LINE INSURANCE

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Coverage issued under article accords with provisions regulating unauthorized insurers. - Surplus line coverage issued in accordance with this article is issued in accordance with this chapter, while insurance written in a manner which authorizes service on the insurer under the Unauthorized Insurers Process Act (see O.C.G.A. § 33-5-50 et

seq.) is written in violation of and not in accordance with this chapter. Reeves v. South Am. Managers, Inc., 110 Ga. App. 49, 137 S.E.2d 700 (1964), aff ’d, 220 Ga. 493, 140 S.E.2d 201 (1965). Cited in Kelley v. Montgomery, 108 Ga. App. 271, 132 S.E.2d 857 (1963); Insurance Co. v. Dills, 145 Ga. App. 183, 243 S.E.2d 549 (1978).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL This article does not transform an unauthorized insurer into an authorized insurer. 1969 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 69-498.

PART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2011, p. 449, § 8/HB 413, effective July 1, 2011, desig-

nated Code Sections 33-5-20 through 33-5-35 as Part 1 of Article 2.