SECTIONS 10070-10080 - California Statutes

INSURANCE CODE

SECTION 10070-10080

10070. In July of every year, there shall be held a meeting of
every corporation created for the purpose specified in this chapter.

10071. Ten days' notice of the meeting shall be inserted in at
least one daily newspaper published in the municipality in which the
corporation is established.

10072. At such meeting each insurer or insurance agent, doing a
fire insurance business in the municipality, whether a member of the
corporation or not, has a right to be represented and is entitled to
one vote.

10073. A majority of the whole number so represented may decide the
question of sustaining the fire patrol organized by the corporation
and may fix the maximum amount of expenses to be incurred therefor
during the ensuing fiscal year.

10074. The amount of expense so fixed shall not exceed two per cent
of the aggregate premiums returned as received, as provided in
section 10076. The whole of such amount, or so much thereof as is
necessary, may be assessed upon all insurers or insurance agents who
assume risks or accept premiums for fire insurance in said
municipality. Such assessment shall be made in proportion to the
several amounts of premiums returned as received by each in the
statement required by section 10076.

10075. Such assessment is collectible by and in the name of the
corporation, in any court of competent jurisdiction, in such manner
and at such time or times as the corporation determines.

10076. In order to pay persons employed by the corporation, and to
maintain apparatus for saving life and property and suitable quarters
the corporation may require a statement to be furnished,
semiannually, by all persons mentioned in section 10074, setting
forth the aggregate amount of premiums received for insuring property
in the municipality during the six months next preceding July first
and January first, respectively, of each year.

10077. Each statement shall be under oath and shall be handed to
the secretary of the corporation within ten days after each first day
of July and each first day of January. A statement covering the
receipts of a natural person shall be sworn to by the person whose
receipts it covers. Otherwise the statement shall be sworn to by the
president, secretary or agent of the person whose receipts it covers.

10078. The secretary of such corporation shall, within the
prescribed ten days, by written demand signed by him, require the
statement from every person assessable under this chapter.

10079. The demand may be delivered personally at the office of
every person required to furnish the statement. Every such person, or
officer thereof, who, for fifteen days after said demand, neglects
to render the statement forfeits fifty dollars for the use of the
corporation, and also forfeits for its use twenty-five dollars in
addition for every day such neglect is continued after the expiration
of the fifteen days. Such additional penalty may be computed and
collected up to the time of the trial of any action brought for its
recovery.

10080. The corporation may bring action to recover such penalty,
with costs, in any court of competent jurisdiction.