56-2-106 - Certificate of exemption.
56-2-106. Certificate of exemption.
(a) The commissioner shall, upon the payment of a filing fee of one hundred dollars ($100), grant a certificate of exemption to any life insurance or annuity company:
(1) That is organized and operated without profit to any private shareholder or individual;
(2) That is organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of aiding educational or scientific institutions that are also organized and operated without profit to any private shareholder or individual;
(3) That serves that purpose by issuing insurance and annuity contracts only to or for the benefit of the educational or scientific institutions or to individuals engaged in the service of the institutions;
(4) That appoints the commissioner, and the commissioner's successors in office, as its attorney to receive the service of process issued against it in this state, which appointment shall be irrevocable, shall bind the company and any successor in interest, and shall remain in effect so long as there is in force in this state any contract or policy made or issued by the company or any obligation arising from the contract or policy;
(5) That is fully and legally organized and qualified to do business and that has been actively doing business under the laws of the state of its incorporation for a period of at least three (3) years prior to its application for a certificate of exemption, and possesses and maintains the amount of capital and surplus that would be required for a company to be qualified in this state to do the kind or kinds of business it transacts; and
(6) Whose directors and officers are of known good character and are not affiliated, directly or indirectly, through ownership, control, management, reinsurance transactions, or other insurance or business relations with any person known to have been involved in the improper manipulation of assets, accounts, reinsurance or any matter inimical to the business of insurance.
(b) If, after reasonable notice and a hearing, the commissioner finds that any company holding a certificate of exemption no longer meets the requirements of subdivisions (a)(1)-(6), or finds that any company holding a certificate of exemption has been guilty of any unfair method of competition or any unfair or deceptive acts or practices, as defined in § 56-8-104, the commissioner may enter an order suspending or revoking the certificate of exemption, which order may be reviewed by the writs of certiorari and supersedeas as otherwise provided by law.
(c) Any company holding a certificate of exemption shall pay the premium tax imposed by § 56-4-205 on all policies of life insurance issued after April 4, 1968, to residents of the state, which policies are not issued pursuant to a plan or program authorized by the governing board of the educational or scientific institution, and the premiums for which are not paid for in whole or in part by the educational or scientific institution.
[Acts 1968, ch. 536, § 1; T.C.A., § 56-206.]