40-1501. Formation of companies; membership fee. Any number of persons, not less than four hundred, residing in this state, who collectively own not less than twenty thousand acres of growing grain, in this state, which they desire to insure against loss or damage by hail, and who shall actually subscribe for such insurance to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, in not less than four hundred separate risks, located in not less than ten counties, and upon not more than five risks of one hundred sixty acres each in any one township, may form an incorporated company for the purpose of mutually insuring growing grain against loss or damage by hail: Provided, That each subscriber shall have paid a membership fee of five dollars, for which duplicate receipts have been executed conditioned for the return thereof at the end of one year from date of first subscription if the company has not then completed its organization, the original receipt to be delivered to the member subscribing, and the duplicate receipt, together with the fee, shall within thirty days after the execution thereof be deposited with the commissioner of insurance, until a certificate of authority to transact business has been granted by the commissioner of insurance, if granted within one year from date of first subscription, otherwise to be returned to the subscribing member.
History: L. 1927, ch. 231, 40-1501; June 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 15 - Mutual Hail Insurance Companies
40-1501 Formation of companies; membership fee.
40-1503 Application for insurance; premium; insured as members of company.
40-1504 Assessments; adjustment and payment of losses; losses paid when adjusted, when.
40-1505 Recovery of assessments; limitation of liability of member.
40-1506 Reserve fund; investment.
40-1507 Annual meeting; voting of members.
40-1508 Officers; election; term.
40-1509 Meetings of directors.
40-1511 Directors; election; vacancy.
40-1512 Policies; liability; membership.
40-1513 Misrepresentations by assured.
40-1514 Withdrawal by policyholder.
40-1515 Uniform rates for same class of risks.
40-1516 Unlawful acts of foreign companies; reinsurance therewith by domestic company prohibited.
40-1517 Attorney's fee in actions.