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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-3-21

  • Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Department: means "the department of insurance" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
   Sec. 21. All rules, regulations, notices, orders, deeds, assignments and other instruments or documents issued, executed or promulgated by the department shall be executed in the name of “the department of insurance,” on its behalf, by the insurance commissioner, or, in case of his absence or disability, by a deputy insurance commissioner, and shall be sealed with the official seal of the department; but the commissioner may authorize the execution of such deeds, assignments, releases, petitions, notices or any other instruments or documents issued or executed by the department in connection with the rehabilitation, liquidation or conservation of any insurance company by such department in the name of “the department of insurance,” by any special deputy commissioner duly appointed in charge of rehabilitation, liquidation or conservation of any insurance company; and all such documents so executed by the special deputy insurance commissioner need not bear the official seal of the department.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.28.