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2018 Georgia Code 33-8-3 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 33-8-3 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 33-8-3

TITLE 33 INSURANCE

Section 8. Fees and Taxes, 33-8-1 through 33-8-13.

ARTICLE 2 UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES

33-8-3. License fees of insurance companies generally.

  1. Each and every insurance company, domestic, foreign, or alien, carrying on an insurance business in Georgia shall pay to the Commissioner, annually in advance, on or before July 1, a license fee in an amount as provided in Code Section 33-8-1, which payment shall be in lieu of all other license fees of said companies.Foreign companies entering the state and domestic companies beginning business at any time during the license year as fixed by this Code section shall pay said license fee in full for the remaining portion of that license year.
  2. The license fees provided for in Code Section 33-8-1 are expressly imposed on and shall be the obligation of the licensees.

(Code 1933, § 56-1309, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 729, § 2; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 33; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1399, § 5; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2725, § 12.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

County taxing power preempted prior to 1984.

- O.C.G.A. § 33-8-8.2, effective January 1, 1984, does not affect the validity of a DeKalb county license tax imposed for the years 1974 through 1981, when preemption of the county's power to tax casualty insurance companies could be fairly implied from the sweeping language and broad scope of the 1960 general Act regulating the insurance industry on a state-wide basis, and particularly from the state-wide gross premium tax on casualty insurance companies contained in O.C.G.A. § 33-8-4. Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. DeKalb County, 251 Ga. 309, 304 S.E.2d 386 (1983).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 43 Am. Jur. 2d, Insurance, §§ 30, 43.

C.J.S.

- 44 C.J.S., Insurance, § 71.

ALR.

- What organizations are within provisions of tax statutes relating to insurance companies, 146 A.L.R. 454.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 33-8-3 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 2

Wright v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2002-09-23

Citation: 570 S.E.2d 280, 275 Ga. 497, 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 2706, 2002 Ga. LEXIS 826

Snippet: Justices concur. NOTES [1] USCR 33.9. [2] USCR 33.8. [3] USCR 33.12; State v. Evans, 265 Ga. 332, 336

Cotton States Mutual Insurance v. Dekalb County

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1983-06-29

Citation: 304 S.E.2d 386, 251 Ga. 309, 1983 Ga. LEXIS 762

Snippet: license fee on all insurance companies, OCGA § 33-8-3 (Code Ann. § 56-1309). Appellants contend that