Statute 40-110: Assistants and employees;
salaries; oaths; authority of
assistants; responsibility.
(a) The commissioner of insurance is hereby authorized to appoint an
assistant commissioner of insurance, actuaries, two special
attorneys
who shall have been regularly admitted to practice, an executive secretary,
policy examiners, two field representatives, and a secretary to the
commissioner. Such appointees shall each receive an annual salary to be
determined by the commissioner of insurance, within the limits of available
appropriations. The
commissioner is also
authorized to appoint, within the provisions of the civil service law, and
available appropriations, other employees as necessary to
administer the provisions of this act. The field representatives authorized
by this section may be empowered to conduct inquiries, investigations or
to receive complaints.
Such field
representatives shall not be empowered to make, or direct to be made, an
examination of the affairs and financial condition of any insurance company
in the process of organization, or applying for admission or doing business
in this state.
(b) The appointees authorized by this section shall
take the proper official oath
and shall be in no way interested, except as policyholders, in any
insurance company. In the absence of the commissioner of insurance the
assistant commissioner shall perform the duties of the commissioner of
insurance, but shall in all cases execute papers in the name of the
commissioner of insurance, as assistant. The commissioner of
insurance shall be responsible for all acts of an official nature done and
performed by the commissioner's assistant or any person employed in
such office. All the
appointees authorized by this section shall hold their office at the will
and pleasure of the commissioner of insurance.
History: L. 1927, ch. 231, 40-110;
L. 1931, ch. 8, § 5;
L. 1933, ch. 286, § 12;
L. 1937, ch. 329, § 4;
L. 1939, ch. 207, § 1;
L. 1941, ch. 255, § 1;
L. 1943, ch. 277, § 1;
L. 1945, ch. 323, § 1;
L. 1947, ch. 416, § 1;
L. 1949, ch. 423, § 2;
L. 1955, ch. 240, § 1;
L. 1959, ch. 208, § 1;
L. 1963, ch. 257, § 1;
L. 1965, ch. 294, § 1;
L. 1998, ch. 174, § 31;
L. 2007, ch. 141, § 1; July 1.