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Repealed by Ga. L. 2019, p. 386, § 116/SB 133, effective July 1, 2019.

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 33/SB 429, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted the reservation of this Code section.

CHAPTER 35 PREPAID LEGAL SERVICES PLANS

Sec.

  • 33-35-1. Purposes of chapter; legislative findings of fact.
  • 33-35-2. Definitions.
  • 33-35-3. Benefits excluded from chapter application.
  • 33-35-4. Licenses required for sponsors of prepaid legal services plans; license fee; endorsement of change of address on license; requirements as to applications for licenses generally.
  • 33-35-5. Procedure for issuance or denial of licenses generally; standards for issuance or renewal of licenses generally.
  • 33-35-6. Minimum capital, surplus, and bond requirements.
  • 33-35-7. Grounds and procedure for revocation, suspension, or refusal to renew licenses; imposition of probation or fine; review.
  • 33-35-8. Execution, contents, and filing of subscription contracts generally.
  • 33-35-9. Sale of subscription contracts.
  • 33-35-10. Powers of sponsors to contract for provision of legal and administrative services.
  • 33-35-11. Submission to Commissioner of underwriting rules and rates, premiums, or fees; approval or disapproval.
  • 33-35-12. Standards for advertising and solicitation.
  • 33-35-13. Investment of funds of plans.
  • 33-35-14. Administration of deposits of plans.
  • 33-35-15. Maintenance of books and records by sponsors; examination by Commissioner; reports of examinations; payment of expenses of examinations.
  • 33-35-16. Annual filing of information by sponsors.
  • 33-35-17. Conduct of hearings and proceedings.
  • 33-35-18. Issuance of injunctions against transaction of business by plans; appointment of receivers; institution of criminal proceedings.
  • 33-35-19. Venue of actions against sponsors.
  • 33-35-20. Promulgation of rules and regulations by Commissioner [Repealed].
  • 33-35-21. Applicability of chapter generally.
  • 33-35-22. Applicability of chapter to other insurers.
  • 33-35-23. Applicability of Chapter 6 of title.
Cross references.

- Attorneys generally, T. 15, C. 19.

Administrative Rules and Regulations.

- Prepaid legal services plan, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Comptroller General, Insurance Department, Subject 120-2-29.

Law reviews.

- For article discussing legal services insurance, etc., see 6 Ga. L. Rev. 247 (1972). For article, "Prepaid Legal Services - Survival for the Practitioner," see 11 Ga. St. B.J. 16 (1974). For articles advocating the support and sponsorship of prepaid legal services programs in Georgia and exhibiting plans offered in other states, see 13 Ga. St. B.J. 7 (1976).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Undertaking to defend suit or furnish legal services in certain contingencies as insurance, 71 A.L.R. 695.

Prepaid legal services plans, 93 A.L.R.3d 199.


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