(1) A domestic mutual insurance company may effect a merger with one or more domestic mutual insurance companies, or with one or more foreign mutual insurance companies, if such merger is authorized by the laws of the state under which each such foreign company is organized.(2) The Commissioner of Insurance shall review and approve the plan to merge the mutual insurance companies before submission of the plan to the eligible members for their consideration and vote. The plan must be approved by two-thirds (2/3) of those eligible members who vote in person or by proxy at a duly called eligible members' meeting to consider the plan of merger. The commissioner may require mutual companies to comply with appropriate requirements as that analogous to those of a stock company merger under Sections 83-6-24 and 83-19-99. Laws, 1998, ch. 576, § 41, eff. 7/1/1998.
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