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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-19-7

  • 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.
  • corporation: means an insurance company and includes all persons, partnerships, corporations, associations, orders or societies engaged in or proposing to engage in making any kind of insurance authorized by the laws of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Department: means "the department of insurance" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • principal office: means that office maintained by the corporation in this state, the address of which is required by the provisions of this article to be kept on file in the office of the department. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
   Sec. 7. Such new corporation shall hereafter make its reports in accordance with the laws of the state of Indiana, and shall be subject to the exclusive regulation and supervision of the department of insurance of the state of Indiana, and thereafter shall make its applications for the purpose of doing business in other states, and countries, as a corporation of the state of Indiana, and shall be subject to regulation and supervision by the insurance departments of other states and countries as a foreign insurance company. In its resolution for reincorporation under this law, it shall state the location of its principal office, which shall be in this state.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.246.