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Section 1. - 1. This act shall be known as the Insurance Code....
Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code in so far as...
Section 3. - 3. All persons who, at the time this code goes...
Section 4. - 4. No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes...
Section 5. - 5. Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter...
Section 6. - 6. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein...
Section 7. - 7. Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power...
Section 8. - 8. Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of...
Section 9. - 9. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of...
Section 10. - 10. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...
Section 11. - 11. The present tense includes the past and future tenses;...
Section 12. - 12. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. (Enacted...
Section 12.2. - 12.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...
Section 13. - 13. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural...
Section 14. - 14. “County” includes “city and county.” (Enacted by Stats. 1935,...
Section 15. - 15. “City” includes “city and county.” (Enacted by Stats. 1935,...
Section 16. - 16. As used in this code the word “shall” is...
Section 17. - 17. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)
Section 18. - 18. “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or...
Section 19. - 19. “Person” means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust,...
Section 20. - 20. “Commissioner” means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. (Enacted...
Section 20.5. - 20.5. Whenever in this code the terms “State Industrial Accident...
Section 21. - 21. “Division,” and “department,” in reference to the government of...
Section 21.5. - 21.5. (a) “Administrative law bureau” or “administrative hearing bureau” means...
Section 22. - 22. Insurance is a contract whereby one undertakes to indemnify...
Section 23. - 23. The person who undertakes to indemnify another by insurance...
Section 24. - 24. “Admitted,” in relation to a person, means entitled to...
Section 25. - 25. “Nonadmitted,” in relation to a person, means not entitled...
Section 26. - 26. “Domestic” means organized under the laws of this State,...
Section 27. - 27. “Foreign” means not organized under the laws of this...
Section 28. - 28. “State” means the State of California, unless applied to...
Section 29. - 29. “Mortgage” includes a trust deed, “mortgagor” includes a trustor...
Section 30. - 30. “Resident” means residing in this State, “nonresident” means not...
Section 31. - 31. “Insurance agent” means a person authorized, by and on...
Section 32. - 32. (a) A life and accident and health or sickness...
Section 32.5. - 32.5. “Life and disability insurance analyst” means a person who,...
Section 33. - 33. “Insurance broker” means a person who, for compensation and...
Section 33.5. - 33.5. (a) “Casualty broker-agent” means a person licensed pursuant to...
Section 34. - 34. “Insurance solicitor” means a natural person employed to aid...
Section 35. - 35. “Transact” as applied to insurance includes any of the...
Section 36. - 36. “Paid-in capital” or “capital paid-in” means: (a) In the...
Section 37. - 37. Provisions of this code relating to a particular class...
Section 38. - 38. Unless expressly otherwise provided, any notice required to be...
Section 38.6. - 38.6. (a) (1) A written record required to be given...
Section 38.8. - 38.8. Insurers shall maintain a system for electronically confirming a...
Section 39. - 39. If any provision of this code, or the application...
Section 40. - 40. The existence of insurers formed prior to the date...
Section 41. - 41. All insurance in this State is governed by the...
Section 42. - 42. The designation of insurance coverage as “group” in any...
Section 44. - 44. Any person who willfully and knowingly makes, circulates, or...
Section 45. - 45. (a) “Electronic funds transfer” means any transfer of funds,...
Section 46. - 46. The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term...
Section 47. - 47. “Surplus line broker” means a person licensed under Section...
Section 48. - 48. A “surplus line broker certificate” means a certificate issued...