Section 6703. Organization of nonprofit property/casualty insurance companies  


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  • (a) A corporation may be organized as a type  B  corporation  pursuant   to   paragraph   (b)  of  section  two  hundred  one  of  the
      not-for-profit corporation law or  as  a  nonprofit  reciprocal  insurer
      under  article sixty-one of this chapter to write the kinds of insurance
      specified in subsection (a) of section one thousand one hundred thirteen
      of this chapter other than (1) those types  of  insurance  specified  in
      paragraphs  one, two, eighteen, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-five
      of such  subsection,  (2)  insurance  against  legal  liability  of  the
      insured, and against loss, damage or expense incident to a claim of such
      liability  arising  out of death or injury of any person, due to medical
      or hospital malpractice by any licensed physician or hospital,  and  (3)
      insurance  subject to section three thousand four hundred twenty-five of
      this chapter.
        (b) A corporation organized pursuant to subsection (a) of this section
      shall (1) be  organized  and  operated  exclusively  for  a  purpose  or
      purposes  for which a corporation may be formed under the not-for-profit
      corporation law and this chapter, not for pecuniary profit or  financial
      gain, and no part of its assets, income or profit is distributable to or
      enures  to  the  benefit of its members, directors or officers except to
      the extent permitted under the not-for-profit corporation law  and  this
      chapter, in a manner acceptable to the superintendent, and (2) insure no
      organizations or corporations other than nonprofit organizations.
        (c)  Notwithstanding  any  provision of the not-for-profit corporation
      law, no nonprofit property/casualty insurance company licensed  pursuant
      to  this  article  shall be converted into a corporation or other entity
      organized for pecuniary profit or into a for-profit organization of  any
      kind.