2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
Chapter 19 - DOMESTIC MUTUAL INSURERS
Section 38-19-50 - Use of proxies.

(A) A member of a domestic mutual insurer may vote in person or by proxy on any matter coming before a corporate meeting of members. An appointment of proxy is effective when received by the secretary or other officer or agent authorized to tabulate votes. Unless a time of expiration is otherwise specified, an appointment is valid for eleven months.

(B) No member's vote upon any proposal (1) to divest the insurer of its business and assets, or the major part of it, or (2) to change the corporate structure of the insurer as provided in Article 9 of this chapter may be registered or taken except in person or by a proxy newly executed and specific as to the matter to be voted upon.

(C) No proxy may be utilized by a domestic mutual insurer subject to the provisions of this chapter unless the language and form of the proxy have been approved by the director or his designee.

HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-19-50 [1962 Code Section 37-824; 1971 (57) 1001] recodified as Section 38-31-50 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; Former 1976 Code Section 38-11-250 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-375; 1962 Code Section 37-375] recodified as Section 38-19-50 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 334, Section 4; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 552; 1997 Act No. 68, Section 6.