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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Sec. 4707. (1) An SPFC may be established as a stock corporation, limited liability company, mutual, partnership, or other form of organization approved by the commissioner.
(2) The SPFC's organizational documents shall limit the SPFC's authority to transact the business of insurance or reinsurance to those activities the SPFC conducts to accomplish its purpose as expressed in this chapter and activities it conducts pursuant to any other chapter in this act.
(3) The SPFC shall not adopt a name that is the same as, deceptively similar to, or likely to be confused with or mistaken for another existing business name registered in this state.
(4) The provisions of this act pertaining to mergers, consolidations, conversions, mutualizations, and redomestications apply in determining the procedures to be followed by an SPFC in carrying out any of the transactions described in those provisions.
(5) At least 1 of the members of the management of the SPFC shall be a resident of this state.
(6) An SPFC or captive LLC formed as a limited liability company has the privileges and is subject to the provisions of the Michigan limited liability company act, 1993 PA 23, MCL 450.4101 to 450.5200, for limited liability companies, as well as the applicable provisions contained in this chapter. Nothing contained in this provision with respect to an SPFC shall abrogate, limit, or rescind in any way the authority of the commissioner.
(7) All SPFCs formed as corporations under this chapter are considered bodies corporate and politic, in fact and in name, are subject to all of the provisions of law in relation to corporations as far as they are applicable, and have the corporate powers provided for in chapter 52. 1
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 500. Insurance Code of 1956 § 500.4707 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/mi/chapter-500-insurance-code-of-1956/mi-comp-laws-500-4707/
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