3101 - Application and effect of chapter.

                                CHAPTER 31                          INSURANCE CORPORATIONS     Subchapter        A.  Preliminary Provisions        B.  Powers, Duties and Safeguards        C.  Officers, Directors and Shareholders        Enactment.  Chapter 31 was added December 19, 1990, P.L.834,     No.198, effective in six months.        Special Provisions in Appendix.  See sections 201, 202, 203,     204, 205, 206, 207 and 208 of Act 198 of 1990 in the appendix to     this title for special provisions relating to definition of     "insurance corporation," corporate powers, authorization to do     business, amendment of articles, other fundamental transactions,     increases in capital stock, administrative procedure and     existing powers preserved.                               SUBCHAPTER A                          PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS     Sec.     3101.  Application and effect of chapter.     3102.  Definitions.     § 3101.  Application and effect of chapter.        (a)  General rule.--This chapter shall be applicable to a     business corporation that is a domestic insurance corporation.        (b)  Application to business corporations generally.--The     existence of a provision of this chapter shall not of itself     create any implication that a contrary or different rule of law     is or would be applicable to a business corporation that is not     an insurance corporation. This chapter shall not affect any     statute or rule of law that is or would be applicable to a     business corporation that is not an insurance corporation.        (c)  Laws applicable to insurance corporations.--Except as     otherwise provided in this chapter, this subpart shall be     generally applicable to all insurance corporations. The specific     provisions of this chapter shall control over the general     provisions of this subpart. Except as otherwise provided in this     article, an insurance corporation may be simultaneously subject     to this chapter and one or more other chapters of this article.