Okla. Stat. tit. 36, § 36-2130
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Converting mutual insurer
Official statutory text
A. A domestic mutual insurer may become a domestic stock
insurer pursuant to such plan and procedure as is approved in
advance by the Insurance Commissioner.
B. The Commissioner shall not approve any such plan or
procedure unless:
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1. Equitable to the insurer's members;
2. Subject to approval by vote of not less than three-fourths
(3/4) of the insurer's current members voting thereon in person, by
proxy, or by mail at a meeting of members called for the purpose
pursuant to such notice and procedure as may be approved by the
Commissioner;
3. The equity of each policyholder in the insurer is
determinable under a fair formula approved by the Commissioner,
which such equity shall be based upon not less than the insurer's
entire surplus (after deducting contributed or borrowed surplus
funds) plus a reasonable present equity in its reserves and in all
nonadmitted assets;
4. The policyholders entitled to participate in the purchase of
stock or distribution of assets shall include all current
policyholders and all existing persons who had been a policyholder
of the insurer within three (3) years prior to the date such plan
was submitted to the Commissioner;
5. The plan gives to each policyholder of the insurer as
specified in paragraph 4 of this subsection, a preemptive right to
acquire his proportionate part of all of the proposed capital stock
of the insurer, within a designated reasonable period, and to apply
upon the purchase thereof the amount of his equity in the insurer as
determined under paragraph 3, above;
6. Shares are so offered to policyholders at a price not
greater than to be thereafter offered to others nor at more than
double the par value of such shares;
7. The plan provides for payment to each policyholder not
electing to apply his equity in the insurer for or upon the purchase
price of stock to which preemptively entitled, of cash in the amount
of not less than fifty percent (50%) of the amount of his equity not
so used for the purchase of stock, and which cash payment together
with stock so purchased, if any, shall constitute full payment and
discharge of the policyholder's equity as an owner of such mutual
insurer; and
8. The plan, when completed, would provide for the converted
insurer paid-in capital stock in an amount not less than the minimum
paid-in capital required of a domestic stock insurer transacting
like kinds of insurance, together with surplus funds in amount not
less than one-half (1/2) of such required capital.
insurer pursuant to such plan and procedure as is approved in
advance by the Insurance Commissioner.
B. The Commissioner shall not approve any such plan or
procedure unless:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 653
1. Equitable to the insurer's members;
2. Subject to approval by vote of not less than three-fourths
(3/4) of the insurer's current members voting thereon in person, by
proxy, or by mail at a meeting of members called for the purpose
pursuant to such notice and procedure as may be approved by the
Commissioner;
3. The equity of each policyholder in the insurer is
determinable under a fair formula approved by the Commissioner,
which such equity shall be based upon not less than the insurer's
entire surplus (after deducting contributed or borrowed surplus
funds) plus a reasonable present equity in its reserves and in all
nonadmitted assets;
4. The policyholders entitled to participate in the purchase of
stock or distribution of assets shall include all current
policyholders and all existing persons who had been a policyholder
of the insurer within three (3) years prior to the date such plan
was submitted to the Commissioner;
5. The plan gives to each policyholder of the insurer as
specified in paragraph 4 of this subsection, a preemptive right to
acquire his proportionate part of all of the proposed capital stock
of the insurer, within a designated reasonable period, and to apply
upon the purchase thereof the amount of his equity in the insurer as
determined under paragraph 3, above;
6. Shares are so offered to policyholders at a price not
greater than to be thereafter offered to others nor at more than
double the par value of such shares;
7. The plan provides for payment to each policyholder not
electing to apply his equity in the insurer for or upon the purchase
price of stock to which preemptively entitled, of cash in the amount
of not less than fifty percent (50%) of the amount of his equity not
so used for the purchase of stock, and which cash payment together
with stock so purchased, if any, shall constitute full payment and
discharge of the policyholder's equity as an owner of such mutual
insurer; and
8. The plan, when completed, would provide for the converted
insurer paid-in capital stock in an amount not less than the minimum
paid-in capital required of a domestic stock insurer transacting
like kinds of insurance, together with surplus funds in amount not
less than one-half (1/2) of such required capital.
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