56-4-104 - Receipt of illegal fees Issuance of fraudulent certificate Penalty.
56-4-104. Receipt of illegal fees Issuance of fraudulent certificate Penalty.
If the commissioner exacts or receives, either directly or indirectly, any sum of money from any insurance company doing business in this state other than the fees allowed by law, or willfully issues a fraudulent or false certificate of soundness to the company; or, directly or indirectly, receives any money or other valuable thing for doing or not doing any official act as commissioner, other than the fees allowed by law, the commissioner commits a Class E felony.
[Acts 1873, ch. 58, § 17; Shan., § 3345; Code 1932, § 6170; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 56-404; Acts 1989, ch. 591, §§ 1,6.]