2010 Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 3 - Insurance
Chapter 70 - Reciprocal Insurers
§ 23-70-115 - Subscribers generally.

23-70-115. Subscribers generally.

(a) Individuals, partnerships, and corporations of this state may make application, enter into agreement for, and hold policies or contracts in or with, and be a subscriber of, any domestic, foreign, or alien reciprocal insurer.

(b) Any corporation organized under the laws of this state, in addition to the rights, powers, and franchises specified in its articles of incorporation, shall have full power and authority as a subscriber to exchange insurance contracts through a reciprocal insurer.

(c) The right to exchange contracts is declared to be incidental to the purposes for which the corporations are organized and to be as fully granted as the rights and powers expressly conferred upon such corporations.

(d) Government or governmental agencies, state or political subdivisions thereof, boards, associations, estates, trustees, or fiduciaries are authorized to exchange nonassessable reciprocal interinsurance contracts with each other and with individuals, partnerships, and corporations to the same extent that individuals, partnerships, and corporations are herein authorized to exchange reciprocal interinsurance contracts.

(e) 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 the contract but shall not be personally liable upon the contract by reason of acting in a representative capacity.