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

O.C.G.A. § 33-9-38 (2019)

Penalty for failure to comply with final order of Commissioner; penalty for willful violation of provision 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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(a) Any person, insurer, organization, group, or association who fails to comply with a final order of the Commissioner under this chapter shall be liable to the state in an amount not exceeding $50.00; but, if such failure is willful, the person, insurer, organization, group, or association shall be liable to the state in an amount not exceeding $5,000.00. The Commissioner shall collect the amount so payable and may bring an action in the name of the people of the State of Georgia to enforce collection. Such penalties may be in addition to any other penalties provided by law.

(b) Any person who willfully violates this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1933, § 56-536, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 684, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 33; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 33.

Annotations

Cross references. - Punishment for misdemeanors generally, § 17-10-3.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Allstate Ins. Co. v. Bentley, 122 Ga. App. 738, 178 S.E.2d 700 (1970). RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Recovery of cumulative statutory penalties, 71 A.L.R.2d 986.