North Dakota Century Code Title 26.1. Insurance § 26.1-05-06. Articles of incorporation--Contents--Filing--Company name

1. The kind of insurance proposed to be issued.

2. That the company will operate on the stock plan unless it is organized to engage in the life insurance business, in which case the articles must specify whether the company will operate on the stock or mutual plan.

3. The period for the commencement and termination of the company's fiscal year.

4. The period of its existence which may be perpetual.

5. The name of the company, which may be any name not previously in use by an existing corporation authorized to do business in this state, but the words “insurance company”, or, if the business specified in the articles is that of life insurance and the business is to be conducted upon the mutual plan, the words “mutual life insurance company” must constitute a part of such name.