2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 22:1941 — Cease and desist order; penalty for violation

§1941.  Cease and desist order; penalty for violation

A.  If a hearing is held pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act and if the commissioner determines that any provision of this Part has been violated, the commissioner, in addition to the authority to revoke or suspend a license as provided in R.S. 22:1939, shall have the authority to issue an order requiring such person or insurer violating any provision of this Part to cease and desist from such method, act, or practice.  A written record shall be made of the commissioner's findings.  

B.(1)  If after issuing such cease and desist order the person or insurer continues to violate a provision of this Part, the commissioner may seek the enforcement of such order by civil action filed in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court.  

(2)  Any person who is found by the court to have violated a cease and desist order of the commissioner after it has become final and while such order is in effect, shall forfeit and pay to the state of Louisiana a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars, except that, if such violation is found to be willful, the amount of the penalty shall be a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars.  

Acts 1985, No. 563, §1.