Every corporation, company, society, organization, or association of this or any other state or country transacting the business of life insurance on the co-operative or assessment plan shall, on or before the first day of March of each year, make and file with the commissioner of insurance a report of its affairs and operations during the year ending on the 31st day of December immediately preceding. Such report shall be upon blank forms to be provided by the commissioner; and shall be verified under oath by the duly authorized officers of such corporation, society, order, or association; shall be published, or the substance thereof, in some newspaper published in the state at the expense of said company, corporation, order, etc., and in his annual report by the commissioner under a separate part, entitled "Assessment Companies or Associations"; and shall contain such information as the commissioner in his judgment may deem necessary for the welfare of the people of the state, subject to like penalties imposed in Section 83-5-69.