Arizona Laws 20-612. Delinquency proceedings; jurisdiction; venue; nature of remedy; appeal
A. The superior court is vested with exclusive original jurisdiction of delinquency proceedings under this article and is authorized to make all necessary and proper orders to carry out the purposes of this article.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 20-612
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Court: means , unless the context otherwise requires, the judge of the superior court assigned to the delinquency proceeding. See Arizona Laws 20-611
- department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 20-101
- Insurer: means any person, firm, corporation, association or aggregation of persons doing an insurance business and subject to the insurance supervisory authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization or conservation by the director or the equivalent insurance supervisory official of another state. See Arizona Laws 20-611
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia and the territories and possessions of the United States. See Arizona Laws 20-611
- Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
B. The venue of delinquency proceedings against a domestic, foreign or alien insurer shall be in Maricopa county.
C. Delinquency proceedings pursuant to this article constitute the sole and exclusive method of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing or conserving an insurer, and a court shall not entertain a petition for the commencement of such proceedings unless it has been filed in the name of the state on the relation of the director of the department of insurance and financial institutions.
D. An appeal shall lie to the supreme court from an order granting or refusing rehabilitation, liquidation or conservation and from every other order in delinquency proceedings having the character of a final order as to the particular portion of the proceedings embraced therein.