Section 4204. Financial requirements for the organization of stock accident and health insurance companies and stock legal services insurance companies  


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  • (a)  (1)  A  stock  company  may  be organized in the manner  prescribed in section one thousand two hundred one and subsection (e) of
      section one thousand one hundred two of this chapter and licensed to  do
      only  the  kind of insurance business specified in item (i) of paragraph
      three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one hundred thirteen  of
      this  chapter,  with  a  paid-in  capital  of  not less than one hundred
      thousand dollars, and a paid-in surplus at least equal to fifty  percent
      of  its  capital.  Every  such  company  shall  at  all times thereafter
      maintain a minimum capital of one hundred thousand dollars.
        (2) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such  stock  company  initially
      licensed  on or after July first, nineteen hundred eighty-two shall have
      a paid-in capital of not less than two hundred thousand  dollars  and  a
      paid-in surplus at least equal to fifty percent of its capital and shall
      at all times maintain a minimum capital of at least two hundred thousand
      dollars.
        (b)  (1)  Any company organized under the provisions of subsection (a)
      of this section may be licensed to do the  kind  of  insurance  business
      specified  in  item  (ii)  of paragraph three, paragraph twenty-nine and
      paragraph thirty-one of subsection  (a)  of  section  one  thousand  one
      hundred  thirteen  of  this  chapter, if it has a paid-in capital of not
      less than one hundred fifty thousand  dollars,  and  a  paid-in  initial
      surplus  at  least  equal  to  fifty  percent of its capital. Every such
      company shall at all times maintain a minimum  capital  of  one  hundred
      fifty thousand dollars.
        (2)  Notwithstanding  the foregoing provisions of this subsection, any
      such company initially licensed on or after July first, nineteen hundred
      eighty-two shall have a paid-in capital of not less than  three  hundred
      thousand  dollars  and a paid-in surplus at least equal to fifty percent
      of its capital and shall at all times maintain a minimum capital  of  at
      least three hundred thousand dollars.
        (c)  A stock company may be organized to do only the kind of insurance
      specified in paragraph twenty-nine of  subsection  (a)  of  section  one
      thousand  one  hundred  thirteen of this chapter if it complies with the
      financial requirements of  paragraph  one  of  subsection  (a)  of  this
      section.