REFERENCE TITLE: financial responsibility; verification; technical correction

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

SB 1291

Introduced by

Senator Borrelli

AN ACT

amending section 20-236, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to transaction of insurance business.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 20-236, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE20-236. Civil penalty for failure to respond to a request for verification of financial responsibility

If the director finds after a hearing that, upon certification by the department of transportation, an insurer has failed to respond in writing within thirty days to a financial responsibility verification request required pursuant to section 28-4143, the director shall impose a civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each violation but not to exceed an aggregate penalty of twenty thousand dollars in any one six-month period. END_STATUTE