45-3-811 - Financial statements.
45-3-811. Financial statements.
(a) Publication. Every association shall prepare and publish annually, on or before a date prescribed by the commissioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the home office of the association is located, a statement of its financial condition, in the form and containing the information prescribed by the commissioner as of the last business day of its previous fiscal year. It is the duty of the commissioner to see that each association has published its statement in accordance with the form prescribed, and to check the published statement, using the newspaper clipping furnished the commissioner by the association, with the annual report of the association filed with the commissioner. If the statement is not published by the association, the commissioner shall, at the expense of the association, publish the statement.
(b) Discrepancies; Republication; Penalties. In the event there are discrepancies in the published statement of the association and the annual report furnished to the commissioner, and if, in the opinion of the commissioner, the discrepancies are due to clerical errors, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to notify the association to publish its statement so as to conform with the annual report filed with the commissioner, and it shall be the duty of the association to make the republication. If, in the opinion of the commissioner, the discrepancies in the published statement and annual report are not due to clerical errors, it shall be the duty of the commissioner forthwith to publish a true and correct statement as shown by the annual report filed with the commissioner, stating in the publication that the published statement of the association did not conform to the annual report on file with the commissioner, and it shall be the duty of the association to pay the cost and expenses of the publication by the commissioner. Any association that fails or refuses to pay the cost and expenses of the publication by the commissioner of any statement of the association made pursuant to the requirements of this section, shall forfeit to the state one hundred dollars ($100), in addition to the costs and expenses of the publication, which sum the commissioner shall sue for and recover in the name of the state in any court having jurisdiction.
[Acts 1978, ch. 708, § 3.11; T.C.A., § 45-1518.]