No original certificate of authority shall be issued by the director of insurance until two hundred fifty applications have been received from health care providers other than hospitals, or in the case of hospitals, applications from hospitals representing fifty percent of the beds in the state or states to be affected, and until the director of insurance has satisfied himself that such mutual insurer has bona fide applications representing the number of applicants required.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 58-5B-4

  • State: when used in context signifying a jurisdiction other than the State of South Dakota, a state, the District of Columbia, a territory, commonwealth, or possession of the United States of America, or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See South Dakota Codified Laws 58-1-2

Source: SL 1976, ch 315, § 4.