33-3-414. Nonassessable policies of mutual insurers. - Montana Statutes

     33-3-414. Nonassessable policies of mutual insurers. (1) While possessing surplus funds in amount not less than the paid-in capital stock required of a domestic stock insurer transacting like kinds of insurance, a domestic mutual insurer may, upon receipt of the commissioner's order so authorizing, extinguish the contingent liability of its members as to all its policies in force and may omit provisions imposing contingent liability in all its policies currently issued.
     (2) A foreign or alien mutual insurer may issue nonassessable policies to its members in this state pursuant to its articles of incorporation and the laws of its domicile.
     (3) No policy of a domestic mutual insurer which, pursuant to the commissioner's order, is without contingent liability and thereby nonassessable by its terms shall be subject to assessment for any debt or liability of the insurer.

     History: En. Sec. 449, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-4732.