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...A domestic mutual company may, in its articles of incorporation, or in its bylaws, provide for a cash premium payable in advance and a contingent liability of the policyholder of not less than one, nor more than ten times the cash premium in each policy, and may further provide for policies not exceeding on any one risk five per cent of the company's assets, to be issued for cash premiums payable in advance without c...

...it is approved by the superintendent of insurance.

...apital stock required of domestic stock insurance companies transacting the same kind of insurance.

...mutual company shall set forth in every insurance policy it issues upon a cash premium and contingent liability, either a stipulation of the contingent liability of the policyholder or the provision in the articles of incorporation or bylaws fixing the contingent liability. Such contingent liability shall cease with the expiration of the time for which a cash premium has been paid in advance, except for liability inc...

...domestic insurance companies other than life. In computing the assets, liabilities, and surplus of such company, no contingent liability or unauthorized investments shall be considered.

...Subsequent to the first calendar year after organization, the expense of management of any domestic mutual company shall not exceed in any one calendar year forty per cent of its premium income in such year; provided that the income on policies issued on the premium note or assessment plan shall be computed according to the annual basic premium.

...Any domestic mutual company having a contingent liability which is not possessed of assets above its unearned premium sufficient for the payment of incurred losses and expenses is deemed to be impaired and shall make an assessment for the amount needed to pay such losses and expenses upon its members liable to assessment, in proportion to and within the limits of their several liabilities.

...wenty-five per cent of such company's reinsurance reserve fund, computed according to law, the superintendent of insurance may permit it to continue to issue policies for such period, not exceeding ninety days, as he designates. If such impairment is not restored within the period designated, or exceeds twenty-five percent of such reinsurance reserve, no such company shall issue new policies until such impairment is...

...Every domestic mutual company shall record in a book kept for that purpose the order for an assessment required by section 3941.15 of the Revised Code, with a statement which sets forth the condition of the company at the date of the order, the amount of its assets and of its deposit notes or other contingent funds liable to the assessment, the amount which the assessment calls for, and the particular losses or other...

...y, a receiver, or the superintendent of insurance, the court may decline to exercise jurisdiction thereof. If the directors unreasonably neglect to make an assessment or call to satisfy an admitted or ascertained claim upon the company, any judgment creditor, any person holding such claim, or the superintendent, may make application to the court. Upon such application, if made by the directors, or upon an order of th...

...risks taken after the superintendent of insurance has issued his requisition to restore any deficiency in the assets and before such deficiency is restored. This section does not require any mutual fire insurance company, doing business on the premium note plan, to keep on hand any cash reinsurance reserve or funds invested in securities, other than their premium notes, when the premium notes amount in gross to three...

...ll be admitted to transact the kinds of insurance authorized by its charter or articles of incorporation to the extent and with the privileges and powers permitted by law to domestic mutual companies when such company is solvent and shall transact its business according to the requirements of law applicable to like domestic mutual insurance companies.

...al company, transacting the business of insurance authorized in sections 3941.01 to 3941.34, inclusive, of the Revised Code, on the mutual plan, in accordance with the laws of the country, state, or province in which it was organized, may be admitted to transact such business within this state upon complying with the laws applicable to it when its assets, invested according to the laws of the state where its assets a...

...Whenever the superintendent of insurance finds that any foreign or alien mutual company doing business in this state does not have the qualifications required of such company for admission to this state, or that it has not complied with the law, he may revoke its license to transact business in this state.

...The name of every domestic, foreign, and alien mutual company shall contain the word "mutual." This section does not apply to any company licensed prior to May 22, 1914, to do business in this state, whose name did not contain the word "mutual," as of said date unless it issues policies which are subject to contingent liability or assessment.

...consents thereto. The superintendent of insurance and the secretary of state shall determine all questions respecting such similarity of names, and if they fail to agree, the attorney general shall determine whether any proposed name may be adopted or used.

...aliatory law of this state, relating to insurance companies, shall apply to any mutual company organized under the laws of any state which has a similar law exempting mutual fire insurance companies from the retaliatory laws of such state.

...g corporations and the laws relating to insurance, to the extent they are applicable to any mutual companies and not in conflict with sections 3941.01 to 3941.34, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are hereby made specifically applicable to such mutual companies.

...Sections 3941.01 to 3941.29 of the Revised Code do not affect any company doing business within this state on the premium note plan or any mutual protective association organized or doing business under sections 3939.01 to 3939.11 of the Revised Code, unless that company or association elects to reorganize under sections 3941.01 to 3941.29 of the Revised Code. The sections repealed by Volume 104, Ohio Laws, page 208...

...Every mutual fire insurance company created by or organized under a general or special law of this state, and doing business in this state upon or without the premium note plan, which by its policy, bylaws, or public statements of its financial affairs claims the benefit of the guarantee fund or the contingent liability of its policyholders as provided for in sections 3941.01 to 3941.34, inclusive, of the Revised Cod...

...ke and forward to the superintendent of insurance an annual report of its affairs, as required by law, or refuses to allow him free access to its books and papers, and to investigate its financial standing if organized under the laws of this state, shall forfeit its charter, and the superintendent shall proceed without delay to bring its affairs to a close.

...A domestic mutual fire insurance company, for the protection of all its policies, may deposit with the superintendent of insurance, securities of the kind described in this section, in such sum as is necessary to enable such company to transact business in any other state under the laws of said state. Said securities shall consist of United States bonds, bonds of this state, or bonds of county or city of this state,...

...The superintendent of insurance shall collect and pay over to the depositing company the principal and interest on securities deposited in compliance with section 3941.30 of the Revised Code as they mature, but before receiving the proceeds of the principal sum of any deposited security, the company shall substitute securities of the required character equal in amount to those maturing. The depositing company at any...

... of the depositing domestic mutual fire insurance company, the superintendent of insurance shall certify under the seal of his office to the insurance department of any other state, or to any other interested person, to the fact of such deposit, and the amount and description of the securities on deposit.

...Every domestic mutual fire insurance company having securities deposited in the office of the superintendent of insurance, may, once during each calendar year, at such proper time as the company selects, cause its securities so deposited to be examined by its president, its secretary, or other agent whom it designates for that purpose.