In verification of the matters set forth in Section 1060 of this code, the Department of Finance shall, at least every two years or more often if requested by the commissioner, examine the commissioner’s books and accounts relating to all proceedings under this article, and shall file a report of each examination with the court in which the respective proceeding is pending and shall furnish the commissioner a certified copy of each report. The expense of examining the books and accounts of the commissioner as conservator or liquidator under this article shall be paid out of the support appropriation for the Department of Insurance current at the date of billing for the expense and shall, upon order of the court or courts before which the proceedings under the articles are pending, be ratably reimbursed to that appropriation out of the assets of the estates administered by the commissioner as conservator or liquidator under this article.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 786, Sec. 15. (AB 2303) Effective January 1, 2013.)