California Code of Regulations
Title 10 - Investment
Chapter 5 - Insurance Commissioner
Subchapter 4 - Insurer Securities Permits
Article 3 - Applications-in General
Section 2603.02 - Where Filed

A. Admitted domestic insurers whose home offices are south of the north border of San Luis Obispo, Kern and San Bernardino Counties or in Mono or Inyo Counties shall apply through the Commissioner's Los Angeles office; other admitted domestic insurers shall apply through the Commissioner's Oakland office. Applications for securities permits will not be accepted for filing at the Sacramento and San Diego offices.

B. Nonadmitted domestic applicants seeking organizational or similar permits shall file according to the foregoing rule applied to where their principal California offices will be when they are organized and admitted.

C. Admitted foreign insurers shall apply through the appropriate filing office determined by applying the rule of paragraph A above to their principal California base of operations, unless activities of affiliates predominant in the group are centered in another part of the state, in which event they shall file in the Commissioner's appropriate office in such other part of the state.

D. Nonadmitted foreign insurers shall file in the Oakland office unless they have an application for Certificate of Authority pending in, or have previously applied for admission or a permit through, the Los Angeles office, in which event they shall apply through that office. (Section 843)

E. The Commissioner reserves the right to transfer an application from one office to another for the convenience of the Department or for cause.