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INSURANCE
(215 ILCS 5/) Illinois Insurance Code.

215 ILCS 5/67

    (215 ILCS 5/67) (from Ch. 73, par. 679)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 67. Power of attorney. The power of attorney or other authority of the attorney-in-fact under which contracts of insurance are to be exchanged pursuant to this Article shall set forth
        (a) the address of the principal office of the
    
attorney-in-fact;
        (b) that the attorney-in-fact is authorized to accept
    
service of process on behalf of the reciprocal and to appoint the Director and his successor or successors in office the true and lawful attorney of such reciprocal for the service of process in actions upon contracts exchanged;
        (c) the amount to be deducted from advance deposits
    
to be paid to the attorney-in-fact and the items of expense, in addition to losses, to be paid by the reciprocal;
        (d) a provision for a cash deposit;
        (e) except as provided in Section 75, a provision for
    
a contingent several liability of each subscriber in an amount of not less than one nor more than ten times the cash deposit stated in the contract; and
        (f) such other provisions not inconsistent with law
    
as may be deemed necessary or advisable.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/68

    (215 ILCS 5/68) (from Ch. 73, par. 680)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 68. Declaration of organization. The attorney-in-fact of subscribers who desire to form a reciprocal under this Article shall sign and acknowledge, before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments, a declaration of organization in duplicate. When the attorney-in-fact is a corporation, the declaration shall be acknowledged by an officer thereof. The declaration shall set forth
        (a) the name of the attorney-in-fact and the name or
    
designation under which contracts are to be exchanged;
        (b) the location of the principal office of the
    
attorney-in-fact;
        (c) the class or classes of insurance, as provided in
    
Section 65, which it proposes to effect or exchange and the kinds of insurance in each class to be effected or exchanged;
        (d) such other provisions not inconsistent with law
    
which may be deemed by the attorney-in-fact or subscribers to be necessary or advisable.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/69

    (215 ILCS 5/69) (from Ch. 73, par. 681)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 69. Documents to be delivered to Director. Upon the execution of a declaration of organization, there shall be delivered to the Director
        (a) duplicate originals of the declaration of
    
organization;
        (b) a copy of the power of attorney of the
    
attorney-in-fact under or by virtue of which such insurance is to be effected or exchanged;
        (c) an instrument authorizing service of process on
    
the Director provided for in Section 77;
        (d) 2 organization bonds, or the cash or securities,
    
provided for in Section 70;
        (e) the form of guaranty fund agreements and of
    
guaranty capital shares, if any, as provided in Section 76 to be issued in connection with solicitation of surplus; and
        (f) the form of escrow agreement for the deposit of
    
cash or securities.
(Source: P.A. 84-502.)

215 ILCS 5/69.1

    (215 ILCS 5/69.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 681.1)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 69.1. Escrow agreements. The company shall designate a bank or trust company with whom it will enter into an escrow agreement, which agreement shall state that the organization surplus shall be placed in escrow and remain so, until an organization examination has been completed. When the exam has been completed the escrow agent is authorized to purchase securities for deposit as required by Section 74 and forward them to the Director. The escrow agent is authorized to release the balance of the escrow funds to the company only upon notification that a Certificate of Authority or similar documentation has been issued by the Director.
(Source: P.A. 84-502.)

215 ILCS 5/70

    (215 ILCS 5/70) (from Ch. 73, par. 682)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 70. Organization bonds. The attorney-in-fact shall deliver to the Director two bonds in the same penalties and containing the same provisions, so far as applicable, as the bonds required for the organization of a stock company by Section 16 for the use and benefit of the State of Illinois, subscribers and creditors, or in lieu of delivering such bonds, the attorney-in-fact may deposit cash or securities of the same kind and amount and on the same terms and conditions, so far as applicable, as provided by said Section.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/71

    (215 ILCS 5/71) (from Ch. 73, par. 683)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 71. Approval of documents. The documents and papers so delivered to the Director may be approved or disapproved by the Director, and the attorney-in-fact is entitled to a hearing, in the same manner as provided in Section 18 in the case of documents delivered for approval in connection with the organization of stock companies. If the documents and papers so delivered are approved by the Director he must file in his office the power of attorney, forms of policies and applications, bonds or securities and one of the duplicate originals of the declaration of organization, and endorse upon the other duplicate original his approval and the month, day and year of approval and deliver it to the attorney-in-fact. Upon the date of approval of the declaration of organization by the Director, the reciprocal is deemed to be organized.
(Source: P.A. 77-747.)

215 ILCS 5/72

    (215 ILCS 5/72) (from Ch. 73, par. 684)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 72. Authority to solicit subscriptions to surplus. Upon the approval of the declaration of organization by the Director, he shall issue to the attorney-in-fact a permit, which shall expire at the end of two years from its date, authorizing him to solicit subscriptions to surplus in accordance with this Code and to do such other acts as may be necessary and proper in order to complete its organization and to entitle it to receive a certificate of authority to transact an insurance business.
(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1565.)

215 ILCS 5/73

    (215 ILCS 5/73) (from Ch. 73, par. 685)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 73. Issuance of certificate of authority. When the Director has been notified that the required surplus has been fully collected, he shall conduct an examination of the reciprocal. If he finds that the organization is complete, that all of the requirements of this Code have been met, that the required surplus has been fully collected, and that the deposits provided for by Section 74 have been met, he shall issue to the attorney-in-fact a certificate of authority to transact the kind or kinds of business specified therein. No attorney-in-fact shall transact any business of insurance until he or it has received a certificate of authority as herein prescribed nor any business of insurance not specified in such certificate of authority.
(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1565.)

215 ILCS 5/74

    (215 ILCS 5/74) (from Ch. 73, par. 686)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 74. Deposit. A domestic reciprocal subject to the provisions of this Article shall make and maintain with the Director, for the protection of all creditors, policyholders and policy obligations of the reciprocal, a deposit of securities that are authorized investments under Section 126.11A(1), 126.11A(2), 126.24A(1), or 126.24A(2), having a fair market value equal to the surplus required to be maintained under Section 66. The Director may release the required deposit of securities upon receipt of an order of a court having proper jurisdiction or upon: (i) certification by the reciprocal company that it has no outstanding creditors, policyholders, or policy obligations in effect and no plans to engage in the business of insurance; (ii) receipt of a lawful resolution of the governing body of the reciprocal's attorney-in-fact effecting the surrender of its certificate of authority and declaration of organization for administrative dissolution by the Director; and (iii) receipt of the name and forwarding address for each of the final officers and directors of the reciprocal's attorney-in-fact, together with a plan of dissolution approved by the Director.
(Source: P.A. 92-75, eff. 7-12-01.)

215 ILCS 5/75

    (215 ILCS 5/75) (from Ch. 73, par. 687)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 75. Contingent liability policy provisions.
    (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) any contract of insurance exchanged under this Article shall provide for a cash deposit and a contingent several liability of the subscriber in an amount not less than one nor more than 10 times the amount of the cash deposit stated in the contract.
    (2) In cases where contingent liability of subscribers is provided for, the provision therefor must be plainly stated in each policy with prominence equal to the indemnifying clause. In addition, each assessable policy, other than an accident and health policy, issued or delivered in this State after September 1, 1967 must have the following statement printed in bold face type on the face of the policy: "This is an assessable policy". If a reciprocal has a surplus equal to the minimum capital and surplus required in Section 13 for a stock company transacting the same kind or kinds of business, such reciprocal may issue policies without contingent liability. Any such reciprocal which has issued policies without contingent liability after the acquisition of such surplus may continue to do so as long as it maintains a surplus equal to the capital and minimum surplus of a stock company doing the same kind or kinds of business, but no reciprocal may issue such policies except during such time as it continues to have such a surplus, provided, however, that any reciprocal which is, immediately prior to July 1, 1965, issuing policies without contingent liability, may continue to do so as long as it maintains a surplus equal in amount to that which would have been required immediately prior to July 1, 1965. Any reciprocal with a surplus equal to the minimum capital and surplus required in Section 13 for a stock company transacting the same kind or kinds of business may issue policies without the limitations contained in subsection (1). After July 18, 1967, no company subject to this Article may make, levy or impose upon its subscribers any assessment based on their contingent liability unless ordered by the Director pursuant to Section 83 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 83-333.)

215 ILCS 5/76

    (215 ILCS 5/76) (from Ch. 73, par. 688)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 76. Guaranty fund or guaranty capital. Any domestic reciprocal may provide for a surplus by accumulating a guaranty fund or guaranty capital in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as is provided in Section 56 for mutual companies.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/77

    (215 ILCS 5/77) (from Ch. 73, par. 689)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 77. Director as attorney - Service of process.
    (1) The attorney-in-fact of every reciprocal transacting business in this State shall file with the Director a duly executed instrument whereby the attorney-in-fact shall appoint and constitute the Director and his successor or successors in office, the true and lawful attorney of such reciprocal upon whom all lawful process in any action or legal proceeding against such reciprocal may be served and shall agree that any lawful process against such reciprocal which may be served upon said attorney shall be of the same force and validity as if served upon the attorney-in-fact and that the authority thereof shall continue in force irrevocably so long as any liability of the reciprocal in the State shall remain outstanding.
    (2) Any reciprocal transacting business in this State may sue or be sued in the name or designation under which its contracts are authorized to be exchanged. Any such suit may be brought in the county in which the cause of action arises or in which the claimant resides, or in the county in which the attorney-in-fact has his principal office. Service may be had upon such reciprocal by service upon the last appointed attorney-in-fact or by service upon the Director. Service of process on an individual subscriber shall not constitute service upon the reciprocal. When such process is served upon the Director, duplicate copies of such process shall be delivered to him and he shall immediately forward one copy of such process to the last appointed attorney-in-fact, by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, giving the date and hour of such service.
(Source: P.A. 83-598.)

215 ILCS 5/78

    (215 ILCS 5/78) (from Ch. 73, par. 690)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 78. Governmental subscribers accounts; dividends; other returns.
    (a) The attorney-in-fact of a governmental reciprocal, in addition to the books of account of the reciprocal, shall keep and maintain from and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993, a separate account for each individual subscriber, setting forth therein the date or periods of the subscriber's participation in the reciprocal, the subscriber's deposits, the savings returned to the subscriber and such other information as may be necessary for the determination of the subscriber's proportionate share, if any, of the surplus funds of the reciprocal in case of liquidation. The attorney-in-fact shall not be required to file a list of the subscribers with the Department.
    (b) The board of directors of the attorney-in-fact of any governmental reciprocal may in its discretion and subject to the prior approval of the advisory committee of the governmental reciprocal and the Director of Insurance:
        (1) declare dividends to its subscribers in the same
    
manner and upon and subject to the same terms and conditions as are provided in Section 54 for mutual companies, except that the reference to "articles of incorporation" in Section 54 shall mean the declaration of organization or the power of attorney or other authority of the attorney-in-fact under which contracts of insurance are to be exchanged pursuant to this article as applied to governmental reciprocals; and
        (2) return guaranty fund or guaranty capital
    
contributions in the same manner and upon and subject to the same terms and conditions as are provided in Section 56 for mutual companies and upon compliance with the provisions of the agreement to subscribe (the agreement to make the contributions), if any.
    No payment or return of surplus (other than return of guaranty fund or of guaranty capital) shall be made except in accordance with this Section and sound business judgment.
(Source: P.A. 90-817, eff. 3-23-99.)

215 ILCS 5/79

    (215 ILCS 5/79) (from Ch. 73, par. 691)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 79. Reserves. All reciprocals subject to this Article shall maintain reserves calculated in the same manner and upon the same basis as stock and mutual companies doing the same kind or kinds of business are required to maintain.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/80

    (215 ILCS 5/80) (from Ch. 73, par. 692)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 80. Amendments to power of attorney and other documents.
    (1) The attorney-in-fact of any reciprocal subject to the provisions of this article may amend the declaration of organization or power of attorney in any respect not in violation of law, but may not amend such documents to insert any provision prohibited, or to delete any provision required, in original declarations of organization or powers of attorney of a similar domestic reciprocal organized under this Code.
    (2) Amendments of the declarations of organization or powers of attorney, shall be made in the following manner:
        (a) Amendment of declaration of organization. The
    
attorney-in-fact shall sign and acknowledge, before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments, an amendment to the declaration of organization, in duplicate. When the attorney-in-fact is a corporation, such amendment shall be acknowledged by an officer thereof. The attorney-in-fact shall deliver such duplicate originals of the amendment to the Director. Such amendment may be approved or disapproved by the Director in the same manner as the original declaration of organization. If approved, the Director shall place on file in his office one of the duplicate originals of the amendment and shall endorse upon the other duplicate original his approval thereof and the month, day and year of such approval, and deliver it to the attorney-in-fact. The amendment shall be effective as of the date of the approval thereof by the Director.
        (b) Amendment of power of attorney. The
    
attorney-in-fact shall deliver to the Director a copy of any form of power of attorney under or by virtue of which it is proposed that insurance is to be effected or exchanged, which varies from the form of any power of attorney previously filed with the Director by such attorney-in-fact, before the same shall be used by any reciprocal. Such power of attorney may be approved or disapproved by the Director in the same manner as the original power of attorney. If approved, the Director shall place on file in his office a duplicate original of the power of attorney and shall endorse upon the other duplicate original his approval thereof and the month, day and year of such approval, and deliver it to the attorney-in-fact. The amendment shall be effective as of the date of approval thereof by the Director.
(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)

215 ILCS 5/81

    (215 ILCS 5/81) (from Ch. 73, par. 693)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 81. Governmental agencies and corporations may be subscribers. Any government or governmental agency, state or political subdivision thereof, public or private corporation, board, association, estate, trustee or fiduciary in this State, or elsewhere, may make application, enter into agreements for, and hold policies or contracts in or with, and be a subscriber of any reciprocal subject to the provisions of this Article. Any officer, representative, trustee, receiver, or legal representative of any such subscriber shall be recognized as acting for or on its behalf for the purpose of such contract but shall not be personally liable upon such contract by reason of acting in such representative capacity.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/82

    (215 ILCS 5/82) (from Ch. 73, par. 694)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 82. Reinsurance. Any domestic reciprocal may enter into reinsurance contracts subject to the provisions of Article XI.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/83

    (215 ILCS 5/83) (from Ch. 73, par. 695)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 83. Procedure when insufficient assets are possessed by reciprocal.
    (1) Whenever the Director finds that the admitted assets in excess of all liabilities of a reciprocal are less than the amount required by subsection (2) of Section 66, the Director shall proceed in the manner set forth as provided in Section 60 applicable to mutual companies and the reciprocal, its attorney-in-fact or any officers thereof, shall be subject to the same requirements and penalties in such Section provided. Nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed to limit or restrict the authority of any liquidator, conservator or rehabilitator acting under the provisions of Article XIII or XIII 1/2 of this Act.
    (2) The attorney-in-fact of any such reciprocal may repair such deficiency within the period designated by the Director, by advancing the amount or any part thereof, at an interest rate not exceeding 7% per annum. The funds so advanced shall not be treated as a liability of such reciprocal and such advance including interest thereon shall be repaid only out of the surplus funds of the reciprocal in excess of the amount required by Section 66.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2630.)

215 ILCS 5/84

    (215 ILCS 5/84) (from Ch. 73, par. 696)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 84. Penalties. No person shall act as attorney-in-fact for a reciprocal except in accordance with the provisions of this Article and any person, who violates any of the provisions of this Section or who knowingly participates in or abets such violation shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be required to pay a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars, for each offense, to be recovered in the name of the People of the State of Illinois by the State's Attorney of the county in which the violation occurs, and the penalty so recovered shall be paid into the county treasury.
(Source: P.A. 77-2699.)

215 ILCS 5/85

    (215 ILCS 5/85) (from Ch. 73, par. 697)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 85. Application of other Code provisions. Unless otherwise provided in this Article every reciprocal shall be subject to other applicable provisions of this Code.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/Art. V

 
    (215 ILCS 5/Art. V heading)
ARTICLE V. LLOYDS
(Article scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

215 ILCS 5/86

    (215 ILCS 5/86) (from Ch. 73, par. 698)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 86. Scope of Article.
    (1) This Article applies to all groups including incorporated and individual unincorporated underwriters transacting an insurance business in this State through an attorney-in-fact under the name Lloyds or under a Lloyds plan of operation. Groups that meet the requirements of subsection (3) are referred to in this Code as "Lloyds", and incorporated and individual unincorporated underwriters are referred to as "underwriters".
    (2) As used in this Code:
    "Domestic Lloyds" means a Lloyds having its home office in this State.
    "Foreign Lloyds" means a Lloyds having its home office in any state of the United States other than this State.
    "Alien Lloyds" means a Lloyds having its home office or principal place of business in any country other than the United States.
    (3) A domestic Lloyds must: (i) be established pursuant to a statute or written charter; (ii) provide for governance by a board of directors or similar body; and (iii) establish and monitor standards of solvency of its underwriters. A foreign or alien Lloyds must be subject to requirements of its state or country of domicile. Those requirements must be substantially similar to those required of domestic Lloyds. Domestic, foreign, and alien Lloyds shall not be subject to Section 144 of this Code.
    (4) All foreign and alien entities and individuals transacting an insurance business as domestic, foreign, or alien Lloyds shall notify the Director and the Secretary of State under the provisions of this Article, shall be regulated exclusively by the Director, and shall not be required to obtain a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State pursuant to any other law of this State so long as they solely transact business as a domestic, foreign, or alien Lloyds. Upon notification, the Secretary of State may require submission of additional information to determine whether a foreign or alien individual or entity is transacting business solely as a domestic, foreign, or alien Lloyds.
(Source: P.A. 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)

215 ILCS 5/87

    (215 ILCS 5/87) (from Ch. 73, par. 699)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 87. Certificate of authority. It shall be unlawful for any domestic, foreign or alien Lloyds to transact business in this State unless it has first obtained and has in force a certificate of authority issued by the Director. All certificates of authority issued under the provisions of this Article shall terminate on the thirtieth day of June next following the date of issuance and may be renewed upon compliance with this Code.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/88

    (215 ILCS 5/88) (from Ch. 73, par. 700)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 88. Name. The name of any Lloyds authorized to transact business under this Article shall not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, the name of any domestic company or of any foreign or alien company authorized to transact business in this State.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)