In each odd-numbered year, or upon application for insurance, the state board of higher education, and each officer, department, or agent of the state and of any industry thereof having in charge any public building belonging to the state, each county auditor, city auditor, township clerk, and school district business manager, as the case may be, the agent for an international peace garden, and the agent for a winter show, if applicable, shall report to the commissioner the insurable value of each public building, or of each building owned by an international peace garden or a winter show with the exception of buildings insured by private insurance companies, and of the fixtures and permanent contents therein, with the exception of fixtures and permanent contents insured by private insurance companies, belonging to the state, political subdivision, an international peace garden, or a winter show, and shall supply such other information as may be required by the commissioner on forms provided by the commissioner.