Section 27-29-10 Criminal proceedings.
Section 27-29-10
Criminal proceedings.
Whenever it appears to the commissioner that any insurer or any director, officer, employee, or agent thereof has committed a willful violation of this chapter, the commissioner may cause criminal proceedings to be instituted by the district attorney for the county in which the principal office of the insurer is located, or if such insurer has no such office in the state, then by the District Attorney for Montgomery County, against such insurer or the responsible director, officer, employee, or agent thereof. Any insurer which willfully violates this chapter may upon conviction be fined not more than $10,000.00. Any individual who willfully violates this chapter may upon conviction be fined not more than $1,000.00 or, if such willful violation involves the deliberate perpetration of a fraud upon the commissioner, imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(Acts 1973, No. 1042, p. 1636, §11.)