17:29A-18. Suspension of license; procedure

Any rating organization which violates any provision of this act shall be subject to suspension of its license. Failure of a rating organization to comply with the provisions of any order of the commissioner within the time limited by such order, or any extension thereof as the commissioner may, in his discretion grant, shall, if no proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ has been taken for review of such order, automatically suspend the license of such rating organization. No order suspending a license because of a violation of any provision of this act shall be made by the commissioner, except upon ten days' notice to such rating organization, specifying the particular violation. If such rating organization shall make a request therefor in writing within the ten-day period, the commissioner shall name a time and place for a hearing, at which such rating organization shall be given opportunity to make its defense. At the conclusion of such hearing, the commissioner shall make such order as in his judgment the evidence shall warrant. A suspension of license shall be effective until modified or rescinded by order of the commissioner upon proof that the violation of the provisions of this act no longer continue, or upon proof that the rating organization has complied with the terms of any prior order made by the commissioner, or until the order of the commissioner upon which such suspension is based is reversed or modified upon a review thereof by a proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ.

L.1944, c. 27, p. 79, s. 18. Amended by L.1953, c. 17, p. 249, s. 118.