Md. Code, Insurance § 3-213
This is the official text of Md. Code, Insurance § 3-213, part of Maryland’s Code, Insurance — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§3–213.
Official statutory text
(a) An individual, partnership, or corporation of the State may make application, enter into agreement for, hold policies or contracts in or with, and be a subscriber of a domestic, foreign, or alien reciprocal insurer.
(b) (1) In addition to the powers specified in its articles of incorporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State has full power as a subscriber to exchange insurance contracts through a domestic, foreign, or alien reciprocal insurer.
(2) The right to exchange insurance contracts through a reciprocal insurer is:
(i) incidental to the purposes for which the corporation is organized; and
(ii) as fully granted as the powers expressly conferred on the corporation.
(c) Governments, governmental units, states, political subdivisions of states, boards, associations, estates, trustees, and fiduciaries may exchange reciprocal insurance contracts with each other and with individuals, partnerships, and corporations to the same extent that individuals, partnerships, and corporations may exchange reciprocal insurance contracts.
(d) An officer, representative, trustee, receiver, or legal representative of a subscriber shall be recognized as acting for or on behalf of the subscriber for the purpose of a reciprocal insurance contract and in that capacity is not personally liable on the reciprocal insurance contract.
(b) (1) In addition to the powers specified in its articles of incorporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State has full power as a subscriber to exchange insurance contracts through a domestic, foreign, or alien reciprocal insurer.
(2) The right to exchange insurance contracts through a reciprocal insurer is:
(i) incidental to the purposes for which the corporation is organized; and
(ii) as fully granted as the powers expressly conferred on the corporation.
(c) Governments, governmental units, states, political subdivisions of states, boards, associations, estates, trustees, and fiduciaries may exchange reciprocal insurance contracts with each other and with individuals, partnerships, and corporations to the same extent that individuals, partnerships, and corporations may exchange reciprocal insurance contracts.
(d) An officer, representative, trustee, receiver, or legal representative of a subscriber shall be recognized as acting for or on behalf of the subscriber for the purpose of a reciprocal insurance contract and in that capacity is not personally liable on the reciprocal insurance contract.
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