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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="3-103" title_number="3" title_name="Kinds of Insurers" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Stock Insurers and Mutual Insurers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A domestic insurer may be formed for insurance purposes under Title 2 of the Corporations and Associations Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A domestic insurer may be formed either as a mutual insurer or stock insurer, as stated in its articles of incorporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each policyholder of a domestic mutual insurer, other than a holder of a reinsurance contract, is a member of the mutual insurer, with each right and obligation of membership.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each policy shall state the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any person, government, governmental unit, state, or political subdivision may be a member of a domestic, foreign, or alien mutual insurer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An officer, stockholder, trustee, or legal representative of a member:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>may be recognized as acting in a representative capacity for or on behalf of the member for the purpose of the membership; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is not personally liable on the insurance contract for acting in that representative capacity.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A Maryland corporation may participate as a member of a mutual insurer incidentally to the purpose for which the corporation is organized.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each member of a domestic mutual insurer is entitled to one vote, or to the number of votes the bylaws provide, based on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the insurance in force;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the number of policies held; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the amount of premium paid.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Only the policyholder under a group policy is a member of the mutual insurer and is entitled to vote at the meetings of the mutual insurer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the board of directors of a domestic insurer shall have at least nine members.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The board of directors of a domestic financial guaranty insurance company that is prohibited from issuing new policies of financial guaranty insurance shall have at least five members.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
