Section 5-18-23

Maintenance of listing of licensees doing business in state; public access to reports, etc.

(a) The supervisor shall cause to be kept on file in the Bureau of Loans, open to public inspection during business hours, an alphabetical listing of all licensees doing business in Alabama, and such list shall reveal the true ownership of the licensee companies. If the company is a corporation, the list shall indicate the name of the corporation, the address of the home office and the names and addresses of its officers and directors.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, all applications, reports and other papers and documents submitted by licensees to the supervisor or to the bureau shall be open to public inspection only upon approval of the supervisor, but the supervisor shall not deny any person access to such records when the disclosure thereof to such person is in the public interest.

(Acts 1959, No. 374, p. 966, §22.)