North Dakota Code 26.1-10-01 – Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 26.1-10-01
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Partnership: includes a limited liability partnership registered under chapter 45-22. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
1. “Affiliate” means a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is under the control of, or is under common control with, the person specified.
2. “Control” means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. Control is presumed to exist if any person, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing ten percent or more of the voting securities of any other person. This presumption may be rebutted by a showing made in the manner provided for in subsection 9 of section 26.1-10-04, that control does not exist in fact. The commissioner may determine, after furnishing all persons in interest notice and opportunity to be heard and making specific findings of fact to support such determination, that control exists in fact, notwithstanding the absence of a presumption to that effect.
3. “Enterprise risk” means any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving one or more affiliates of an insurer which, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or the insurer’s insurance holding company system as a whole including anything that would cause the insurer’s risk-based capital to fall into company action level as set forth in section 26.1-03.1-03 or would cause the insurer to be in hazardous financial condition as set forth in North Dakota Administrative Code section 45-03-13-01.
4. “Groupwide supervisor” means the regulatory official authorized to engage in conducting and coordinating groupwide supervision activities who is determined or acknowledged by the commissioner under section 26.1-10-06.2 to have sufficient significant contacts with the internationally active insurance group.
5. “Insurance holding company system” means two or more affiliated persons, one or more of which is an insurer.
6. “Insurer” has the same definition as provided in section 26.1-29-02, except the term does not include an agency, authority, or instrumentality of the United States or its possessions or a state or political subdivision of a state.
7. “Internationally active insurance group” means an insurance holding company system that includes an insurer registered under section 26.1-10-04, and meets the following criteria:
a. Premiums written in at least three countries; b. The percentage of gross premiums written outside the United States is at least ten percent of the insurance holding company system’s total gross written premiums; and
c. Based on a three-year rolling average, the total assets of the insurance holding company system are at least fifty billion dollars or the total gross written premiums of the insurance holding company system are at least ten billion dollars.
8. “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, or an unincorporated organization or any similar entity or any combination of the foregoing acting in concert. The term does not include any joint venture partnership exclusively engaged in owning, managing, leasing, or developing real or tangible personal property.
9. “Securityholder” of a specified person means the owner of any security of the person, including common stock, preferred stock, debt obligations, and any other security convertible into or evidencing the right to acquire any of the foregoing.
10. “Subsidiary” of a specified person means an affiliate under the control of the person directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries.
11. “Voting security” includes any security convertible into or evidencing a right to acquire a voting security.