Okla. Stat. tit. 36, § 36-6032
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Limitation on sales of equity securities of certain
Official statutory text
domestic life insurance companies.
A. Not more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the equity
securities of any insurer shall be sold to any person, firm,
corporation or trustee or nominee thereof where said insurer has
been organized within two (2) years preceding the acquisition of
such equity securities, unless the stock so sold or acquired shall
have been at a price not less than the highest market value of such
stock during two (2) years subsequent to incorporation or the
highest price at which such stock is offered to the public during
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two (2) years subsequent to incorporation, whichever sum is the
greater. Should more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the equity
securities of any insurer be sold to any person, firm, corporation
or trustee or nominee thereof at a price less than the highest
market price or the highest price such stock is offered to the
public during the first two (2) years subsequent to incorporation,
such excess between the purchase price and such highest market or
highest offering price shall inure to and be recoverable by the
insurer, unless such equity security was acquired in good faith in
connection with a debt previously contracted, irrespective of any
intention on the part of such purchaser in entering into such
transaction.
B. Suit to recover such profit may be instituted at law or in
equity in any court of competent jurisdiction by the insurer or by
the owner of any equity security of the insurer in the name of and
in behalf of the insurer if the insurer shall fail or refuse to
bring suit within sixty (60) days after request or shall fail to
diligently prosecute the same thereafter. If no suit to recover the
difference between the purchase price and such highest market or
highest offered price is filed within six (6) months after the
realization of such profit or after the expiration of two (2) years
subsequent to the incorporation of the insurer, or if at any time
such suit is not diligently prosecuted, the Insurance Commissioner
may file or prosecute such suit for and on behalf of the insurer at
the expense of the insurer.
C. If the Insurance Commissioner shall find from substantial
evidence submitted that for the best interest of the policyholders
or creditors of an insurer the Commissioner should approve some plan
of merger, consolidation, rehabilitation or sale of such insurer but
is prevented or hindered from doing so because of the provisions of
this section, the Commissioner may order that said transaction be
exempt from the provisions of this section.
A. Not more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the equity
securities of any insurer shall be sold to any person, firm,
corporation or trustee or nominee thereof where said insurer has
been organized within two (2) years preceding the acquisition of
such equity securities, unless the stock so sold or acquired shall
have been at a price not less than the highest market value of such
stock during two (2) years subsequent to incorporation or the
highest price at which such stock is offered to the public during
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two (2) years subsequent to incorporation, whichever sum is the
greater. Should more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the equity
securities of any insurer be sold to any person, firm, corporation
or trustee or nominee thereof at a price less than the highest
market price or the highest price such stock is offered to the
public during the first two (2) years subsequent to incorporation,
such excess between the purchase price and such highest market or
highest offering price shall inure to and be recoverable by the
insurer, unless such equity security was acquired in good faith in
connection with a debt previously contracted, irrespective of any
intention on the part of such purchaser in entering into such
transaction.
B. Suit to recover such profit may be instituted at law or in
equity in any court of competent jurisdiction by the insurer or by
the owner of any equity security of the insurer in the name of and
in behalf of the insurer if the insurer shall fail or refuse to
bring suit within sixty (60) days after request or shall fail to
diligently prosecute the same thereafter. If no suit to recover the
difference between the purchase price and such highest market or
highest offered price is filed within six (6) months after the
realization of such profit or after the expiration of two (2) years
subsequent to the incorporation of the insurer, or if at any time
such suit is not diligently prosecuted, the Insurance Commissioner
may file or prosecute such suit for and on behalf of the insurer at
the expense of the insurer.
C. If the Insurance Commissioner shall find from substantial
evidence submitted that for the best interest of the policyholders
or creditors of an insurer the Commissioner should approve some plan
of merger, consolidation, rehabilitation or sale of such insurer but
is prevented or hindered from doing so because of the provisions of
this section, the Commissioner may order that said transaction be
exempt from the provisions of this section.
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