33-9-104. Initial qualifications. No original certificate of authority for a mutual, stock, or reciprocal insurer may be issued by the commissioner until applications representing 250 members of the profession under consideration have been received by the commissioner or in the case of health care providers that are hospitals, hospital-related facilities, or long-term care facilities, applications representing 50% of the beds in the state or states affected, and until the commissioner has determined that such insurer or insurers have bona fide applications representing the number of applicants required.

     History: En. 40-4762 by Sec. 4, Ch. 119, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 40-4762.