To apply for a solicitation permit, the person shall:

(1) File with the commissioner a request therefor showing:

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Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-27-5

  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • 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.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • 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.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • subscription: include a mark when the person cannot write, if his name is written near the mark, and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness, and include with respect to corporate securities facsimile signature placed upon any instrument or writing with intent to execute or authenticate such instrument or writing. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
a. Name, type and purpose of insurer, corporation, syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization formed or proposed to be formed;
b. Names, addresses, business background, and qualifications of each person associated, or to be associated, in the enterprise or in the formation of the proposed insurer, corporation, syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization;
c. Full disclosure of the terms of all pertinent understandings and agreements existing or proposed among persons so associated; and copies of all such agreements, relative to the proposed financing of the insurer, corporation, syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization, or the formation thereof;
d. The plan according to which solicitations are to be made; and
e. Such additional information as the commissioner may reasonably require;
(2) Submit to the commissioner:

a. The executed and acknowledged triplicate originals of the proposed articles of incorporation of any proposed domestic insurer, a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of any proposed domestic insurer, a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of any foreign insurer or of any other corporation proposing to sell its securities as referred to in Section 27-27-4, and copy of any syndicate, association, firm, partnership, organization, or other similar agreement, by whatever name called, if funds for any of the purposes referred to in Section 27-27-4 are to be secured through the sale of any security, interest, or right in, or relative to, such syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization and, if the proposed insurer is a domestic reciprocal insurer, an original and duplicate copy of the proposed power of attorney and of any other agreements proposed as affecting investors, subscribers, the attorney-in-fact, and the insurer or proposed insurer;
b. Original and duplicate copy of any proposed bylaws;
c. Copy of any security, receipt, or certificate proposed to be issued and copy of the proposed application or subscription agreement therefor;
d. Copy of any insurance contract proposed to be offered by a proposed domestic mutual or reciprocal insurer and copy of application therefor;
e. Copy of any prospectus, advertising, or sales literature proposed to be used;
f. Copy of proposed form of any escrow agreement required; and
g. Irrevocable appointment of the commissioner as process agent to receive service of process issued in this state arising out of any transactions under a solicitation permit, if issued, the appointment to be on a form as prescribed and furnished by the commissioner;
(3) Deposit with the commissioner the fees required under Section 27-4-2 and otherwise by law to be paid for the application, for filing of the articles of incorporation of an insurer, for filing the subscribers’ agreement and attorney-in-fact agreement, if the proposed insurer is a reciprocal, and for the solicitation permit, if granted; and
(4) In lieu of a special filing of the information, or part thereof, called for in subdivision (1) of this section, the commissioner may, in his discretion, accept a duplicate copy of any filing made with any other state or federal agency relative to the same offering or proposed offering.
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