Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2010
Tax on Insurers Law
Chapter 3. All Insurance Other Than Ocean Marine.
Article 5. Prepayments*
Section 12260
12260. Relief from prepayments. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the commissioner may relieve an insurer or Medi-Cal managed care plan of its obligation to make prepayments where the insurer or Medi-Cal managed care plan establishes to the satisfaction of the commissioner that
the insurer has ceased to transact insurance in this state or the Medi-Cal managed care plan has ceased to operate a plan in this state, or the insurer's or Medi-Cal managed care plan's annual tax for the current year will be less than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011, and as of that date is repealed.
History.—Added by Stats. 1971, p. 3528, operative on and after January 1, 1972. Stats. 2009, Ch. 157 (AB 1422), in effect September 22, 2009, designated the first sentence as subdivision (a), added the phrase "or Medi-Cal managed care plan" throughout the first sentence, deleted "either" after "commissioner that", and added "or the Medi-Cal managed care plan has ceased to operate a plan in this state" after "transact insurance in this state" in subdivision (a); and added subdivision (b).
Text of section operative January 1, 2011
12260. Relief from prepayments. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the commissioner may relieve an insurer of its obligation to make prepayments where the insurer establishes to the satisfaction of the commissioner that either the insurer has ceased to transact insurance in this state, or the insurer's annual tax for the current year will be less than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2011.
History.—Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 157 (AB 1422), in effect September 22, 2009, but operative January 1, 2011.
* Article 5 was added by Stats. 1969, p. 1473, in effect August 14, 1969, operative January 1, 1970.

