601.32 Supervision of industry, supplementary fee. - Wisconsin Statutes

601.32

601.32 Supervision of industry, supplementary fee.

601.32(1)

(1) If the moneys credited to s. 20.145 (1) (g) 1. under other sections of the statutes prove inadequate for the office's supervision of insurance industry program, the commissioner may increase any or all of the fees imposed by s. 601.31, or may in any year levy a special assessment on all domestic insurers, or both, for the general operation of that program.

601.32(2)

(2) Any special assessment shall be in addition to all other taxes, fees, dues and charges and shall not exceed for any such company a maximum of 25 cents per $1,000 of gross premiums received by it during the preceding calendar year on direct insurance in this state, less returned premiums and cancellations.

601.32(3)

(3) Any assessment made by the commissioner which is less than the maximum shall be prorated among said companies in the same proportion as if it were a maximum assessment. Any such assessment shall be paid to the commissioner on or before July 31 of each year.

601.32(4)

(4) The commissioner may omit the levy of any assessment which would be smaller than the cost of processing and collecting it.

601.32 - ANNOT.

History: 1975 c. 372 s. 41; 1977 c. 339; 1979 c. 102 ss. 66, 236 (4); 1983 a. 215; 2007 a. 20.