Indiana Code Title 27. Insurance § 27-8-3-5

Sec. 5. Any domestic corporation, association, or society, transacting business of life or accident or life and accident insurance and providing for the payment of total and permanent disability claims to living members, upon the assessment plan, may be reincorporated or reorganized under the provisions of this chapter under its existing corporate name, by filing with the insurance commissioner a declaration of their desire to do so, signed and duly acknowledged by a majority of its board of directors, trustees, or managers, with a statement in like manner signed and acknowledged by them that such corporation, association, or society, having insured the lives or provided for the payment of accident indemnity, has accumulated the fund required by section 7 of this chapter, or having engaged in the business of accident insurance only, has accumulated the fund required by section 11 of this chapter, and that such funds are safely invested and held for the purposes for which the same were accumulated, as provided in the bylaws of such corporation, association or society, whereupon the commissioner, if approved by him, shall file the same, together with his certificate of such approval, with the secretary of state, who shall issue to such corporation, association, or society a certificate of such reincorporation or reorganization, under the seal of the state, and attach thereto copies of all papers so filed with the secretary of state, and the same shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state, and copies thereof filed in the office of the commissioner, and such corporation, association, or society shall thereupon be deemed to be reincorporated and reorganized under the provisions of this chapter.  It shall not be obligatory upon any such existing corporation, association or society to incorporate or reincorporate under this chapter, and any such domestic corporation, association, or society may continue to exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges not inconsistent with this chapter, pursuant to its articles of incorporation or association, the same as if incorporated or reincorporated under this chapter.