Section 27-2-8

Commissioner of Insurance - Delegation of powers, etc.

(a) The commissioner may delegate to any deputy, assistant, examiner or employee of the department the exercise or discharge in the commissioner's name of any power, duty or function, whether ministerial, discretionary or of whatever character, vested by this title in the commissioner.

(b) The commissioner is responsible for the official acts of his deputy, assistant, examiner or employee acting in the commissioner's name and by his authority.

(Acts 1951, No. 234, p. 504, §11; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §26.)