Section 500.6019 - Reorganization plan; conditions for plan to take effect.
THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1956 (EXCERPT)
Act 218 of 1956
500.6019 Reorganization plan; conditions for plan to take effect.
Sec. 6019.
(1) A plan becomes effective when the commissioner has approved the plan, the members have approved the plan, and the articles of incorporation of the mutual holding company, each intermediate holding company, if any, and the revised articles of incorporation of the converted company have been adopted and filed with the commissioner.
(2) All of the following simultaneously occur when a plan of reorganization becomes effective under this chapter:
(a) The mutual company becomes a converted company and the corporate existence of the mutual company continues in the converted company with the original date of incorporation of the mutual company.
(b) The membership interests of the mutual company's policyholders are extinguished, and all of the mutual company's eligible members become members of the mutual holding company by and in accordance with the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the mutual holding company and applicable provisions of this chapter and chapters 50, 54, and 58.
(c) All the rights, franchises, and interests of the mutual company in and to every type of property, real, personal, and mixed, and any things in action belonging to it, are transferred to and vested in the converted company without any deed or transfer.
(d) All the obligations and liabilities of the mutual company are assumed by the converted company.
(e) All of the shares of the capital stock of the converted company shall be issued to the mutual holding company, which at all times shall own a majority of the shares of the voting stock of the converted company, except that either at the time a plan is effective, or at a later time with the commissioner's approval, 1 or more intermediate holding companies may be created, so long as the mutual holding company at all times owns directly or indirectly a majority of the shares of the voting stock of the converted company.
(f) Unless otherwise specified in the plan, the directors and officers of the mutual company serve as directors and officers of the converted company until new directors and officers of the converted company are duly elected pursuant to the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the converted company.
History: Add. 2000, Act 8, Imd. Eff. Feb. 25, 2000
Compiler's Notes: Former Chapter 60, being MCL 500.6000-500.6034, was repealed by Act 256 of 1964, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964.
Popular Name: Act 218