§ 36-362. Fees – Transfer to Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Unit Revolving Fund.

An annual fee of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) shall be paid to the Insurance Commissioner to be expended by the Insurance Commissioner for the purposes of investigation of suspected insurance fraud and civil or administrative action in cases involving suspected insurance fraud.  The following shall pay an annual fee of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) to the Insurance Department which shall be payable quarterly in the amount of One Hundred Eighty-seven Dollars and fifty cents ($187.50):  Life, accident and health insurers; property and casualty insurers; county mutual fire insurers; mutual benefit associations; fraternal benefit societies; reciprocal insurers; motor service clubs; title insurers; nonprofit insurers; health maintenance organizations (HMOs); service warranty associations; surplus lines carriers; multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs); trusts which write surety policies; prepaid dental plan organizations; and accredited reinsurers.  The payments shall be due on or before the last day of the month following each calendar quarter.  Beginning in the calendar year 2010, payment of the annual fee shall be made as one payment of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) which shall be paid on or before July 1.  Within sixty (60) days after each calendar quarter in which monies are collected, the Commissioner shall transfer twenty-five percent (25%) of all monies collected by the Insurance Department pursuant to this section to the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Unit Revolving Fund created in Section 19.3 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for use by the Attorney General in the investigation and prosecution of insurance fraud.

Added by Laws 1999, c. 344, § 2, emerg. eff. June 8, 1999.  Amended by Laws 2001, c. 363, § 5, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 307, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2004, c. 131, § 2; Laws 2006, c. 264, § 10, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 432, § 6, eff. July 1, 2009.