Section 27-2-24

Examinations — Report.

(a) The commissioner or his examiner shall make a full and true written report of each examination. The report shall contain only information obtained from examination of the records, accounts, files and documents of, or relative to, the person examined or from testimony of individuals under oath, together with recommendations of the examiner based thereon. The commissioner shall furnish a copy of the proposed report to the person examined not less than 20 days prior to filing the report in his office. If such person so requests in writing within such 20-day period, the commissioner shall grant a hearing with respect to the report and shall not so file the report until after the hearing and after such modifications have been made therein as the commissioner deems proper.

(b) The report, when so filed, shall be admissible in evidence in any action or proceeding brought by the commissioner against the person examined, or against its officers, employees or agents. The commissioner or his examiners may, at any time, testify and offer other proper evidence as to information secured or matters discovered during the course of an examination, whether or not a written report of the examination has been either made, furnished or filed in the department.

(c) The commissioner may withhold from public inspection any examination or investigation report for so long as he deems necessary to protect the person examined from unwarranted injury or to be in the public interest.

(d) After the examination report has been filed, as provided in this section, the commissioner may publish the results of any such examination in one or more newspapers published in this state whenever he deems it to be in the public interest.

(Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §39.)