27-35-1
Section 27-35-1 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Authority; how effected.
Any fraternal benefit society organized under the laws of this state may convert itself into
a stock life insurance company or a mutual life insurance company, which may be a continuation
of such society under an amended charter, if such society is then incorporated, or a new corporation
formed for such purpose if such society is then unincorporated. In either event, the conversion
of such society into a stock life insurance company or a mutual life insurance company shall
be effected as provided in this chapter. (Acts 1927, No. 537, p. 624; Acts 1971, No. 407,
p. 707, §727.)...
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27-35-7
Section 27-35-7 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Provisions for certificate
holders to subscribe to stock. If the fraternal benefit society is to be converted into a
stock life insurer, the plan of conversion shall make reasonable provisions under which each
adult certificate holder of the society shall have the preemptive right to subscribe to and
purchase that proportion of the total authorized capital which the amount of his insurance
bears to the society's total insurance in force at a date to be specified in such plan; except,
that if more than 75 percent of the society's adult certificate holders are residents of this
state, such preemptive right may, in the commissioner's discretion, under the plan be limited
to such residents. (Acts 1927, No. 537, p. 624; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §733.)...
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27-35-5
Section 27-35-5 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Ratification or amendment
of articles of incorporation - Filing. (a) The articles of incorporation so adopted or as
so amended, as the case may be, shall be filed with the probate judge as required of domestic
insurers under this title; except, that no bond or solicitation permit shall be required.
(b) At the time of filing of articles of incorporation or amended articles of incorporation
with the commissioner, the society shall likewise file a report of the meeting of its supreme
governing or legislative body referred to in Sections 27-35-3 and 27-35-4, certified by the
presiding officer thereof under the corporate seal, if the society has a corporate seal. (Acts
1927, No. 537, p. 624; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §731.)...
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27-35-8
Section 27-35-8 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Completion; effect.
(a) When a fraternal benefit society has complied with the provisions of this chapter and
with the laws of this state relating to domestic stock life insurers or domestic mutual life
insurers, as the case may be, and has received from the commissioner a certificate of authority
to transact business in this state, its reorganization and conversion into such stock insurer
or mutual insurer shall be complete. (b) The reorganized and converted corporation shall be
deemed in law to be a continuation of the fraternal benefit society, whether the reorganization
and conversion shall have been accomplished by the formation of a new corporation or by the
amendment of the certificate of incorporation of the former society; and such reorganized
and converted corporation shall succeed to, and become invested with, all and singular, the
rights, privileges, franchises, and all property, real, personal, or...
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27-35-2
Section 27-35-2 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Plan of conversion;
approval or disapproval thereof. (a) The proposed plan for the conversion of the society into
a stock or mutual life insurer shall be prepared in writing, setting forth in full the terms
and conditions thereof. After approval of the plan by the society's board of directors, the
society shall file the plan of conversion with the commissioner. (b) If, upon examination
thereof, the commissioner is of the opinion that the plan is complete, is in compliance with
the law, is fair and equitable to the certificate holders and interests of the society and
that no reasonable objection thereto exists, he shall approve the plan; if he finds otherwise,
the commissioner shall disapprove the plan. If not disapproved and written notice thereof
given the society within 30 days after the date of filing with the commissioner, the plan
shall be deemed to have been approved as of the expiration of such 30 days'...
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27-35-6
Section 27-35-6 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Certificates of incorporation
and authority. The society shall have corporate existence as a domestic stock or mutual life
insurer upon issuance of the certificate of incorporation by the commissioner or approval
of the amended articles of incorporation, as the case may be; but it shall not transact business
as an insurer until all its authorized capital stock, if a stock insurer, has been subscribed
and paid in full and it has otherwise qualified for, and received from the commissioner, a
certificate of authority as provided in this title for legal reserve insurers. (Acts 1971,
No. 407, p. 707, §732.)...
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27-35-3
Section 27-35-3 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Notice to subordinate
lodges or branches. After the plan of conversion has been approved by the commissioner, the
society shall mail notice by registered or certified mail to all of its subordinate lodges
or branches, by whatever name called, stating that a proposal will be made at a meeting of
the supreme governing or legislative body of the society, to be held at least 90 days after
the mailing of the notice, to convert the society into a stock or mutual life insurer and
enclosing a copy of the proposed plan of conversion. (Acts 1927, No. 537, p. 624; Acts 1971,
No. 407, p. 707, §729.)...
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27-35-9
Section 27-35-9 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Preservation of debts,
liabilities, and duties. Rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of the former
fraternal benefit society shall be preserved unimpaired after the society's conversion, and
the former fraternal benefit society shall be deemed to continue in existence in order to
preserve the same; and all debts, liabilities, and duties of the former fraternal benefit
society shall thenceforth attach to the reorganized and converted corporation and may be enforced
against it to the same extent as if said debts, duties, and liabilities had been incurred
or contracted by it. (Acts 1927, No. 537, p. 624; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §735.)...
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27-35-10
Section 27-35-10 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Obligation to holders
of policies or certificates; pending actions. (a) The reorganized and converted corporation
shall be obligated to carry out and perform all of the obligations of every kind and character
owing by the former fraternal benefit society to the holders of its policies or beneficial
certificates, and the same may be enforced against it to the same extent as if the policies
and beneficial certificates had been issued by it after such conversion. (b) Any pending actions
wherein the former fraternal benefit society was a party shall be unaffected by the conversion
thereof and shall be prosecuted by or against such reorganized and converted corporation the
same as if the conversion had not taken place. (Acts 1927, No. 537, p. 624; Acts 1971, No.
407, p. 707, §736.)...
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27-35-11
Section 27-35-11 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Separate record of
premiums; exemption from premium taxes. The insurer, after conversion from a fraternal benefit
society, shall maintain separate records of premiums received by it on account of policies
and certificates originally issued while a fraternal benefit society and continuing in force
without material change as to form or basis of premium. All such premiums shall be exempt
from premium taxes to the same extent, if any, as to which exempted if currently received
by a domestic fraternal benefit society. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §737.)...
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