2025 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code
Title 6 - Organization of Insurers and Related Entities
Subtitle E - Mutual and Fraternal Companies and Related Entities
Chapter 885 - Fraternal Benefit Societies
Subchapter E. Foreign Fraternal Benefit Societies
Section 885.203. Refusal to Issue Certificate of Authority to Foreign Fraternal Benefit Society

Universal Citation:
TX Ins Code § 885.203 (2025)
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Sec. 885.203. REFUSAL TO ISSUE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY TO FOREIGN FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY. (a) If the commissioner refuses to issue a certificate of authority to a foreign fraternal benefit society under Section 885.202, the commissioner shall:

(1) make the refusal in writing;

(2) file the refusal in the department's office; and

(3) on request, provide a copy of the refusal and a statement of the commissioner's reasons for the refusal to the society's officers.

(b) The commissioner's refusal to issue a certificate of authority to a foreign fraternal benefit society for authority to engage in business in this state is reviewable by proper proceedings in a state court.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.

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