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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 4847

  • Attorney: means the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer. See
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
  • 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

§ 4847. Subscribers’ advisory committee

(a) The advisory committee of a domestic reciprocal insurer exercising the subscribers’ rights shall be selected under such rules as the subscriber adopts.

(b) Not less than two-thirds of the committee shall be subscribers.

(c) The committee shall:

(1) supervise the finances of the insurer;

(2) supervise the insurer’s operations to such extent as to ensure conformity with the subscribers’ agreement and power of attorney;

(3) procure the audit of the accounts and records of the insurer and of the attorney at the expense of the insurer; and

(4) have such additional powers and functions as may be conferred by the subscribers’ agreement. (Added 1971, No. 31, § 1, eff. March 31, 1971; amended 2003, No. 55, § 5; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 233, eff. July 1, 2022.)