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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » ISC - Insurance » Article 45 - Fraternal Benefit Societies » 4503 – Licensing of Foreign and Alien Societies.
§   4503.   Licensing   of   foreign  and  alien  societies.  (a)  The
superintendent may issue a license to do business in this state  to  any
foreign  or alien society which conforms to the requirements for foreign
or alien insurers pursuant to section one thousand one  hundred  six  of
this  chapter,  other than subsection (e) thereof, and which conforms in
substance to all  other  requirements  imposed  on  domestic  authorized
societies under this chapter.  Every such license shall contain the name
of  the  licensee,  its  home office address, the state or country under
whose laws it was incorporated and  the  term  of  such  license.    The
superintendent  may  refuse to issue or renew any such license if in his
judgment such refusal will best promote the interests of the  people  of
this  state.  The superintendent may refuse to renew any such license in
addition to, or in lieu of, a proceeding under article  seventy-four  of
this  chapter  in  the  circumstances specified in section four thousand
five hundred nineteen of this article.

(b) Every license, including every renewal license, issued to a foreign or alien society shall be for a term expiring on April thirtieth following the date of issuance, but such license shall continue in full force until a renewal license shall have been issued or shall have been specifically refused by the superintendent.

(c) No alien society shall be authorized to do business in this state unless it shall at all times maintain trusteed assets, a trusteed surplus and a deposit in the United States pursuant to the provisions of sections one thousand three hundred twelve, one thousand three hundred fifteen, and one thousand three hundred twenty of this chapter, respectively. Such trusteed surplus shall be in an amount not less than four hundred fifty thousand dollars and shall be held in trust for the security of members in the United States admitted to the society on or after January first, nineteen hundred forty. The term "policyholders in the United States" as used in sections one thousand three hundred twelve, one thousand three hundred fifteen and one thousand three hundred twenty of this chapter shall be deemed, in the case of authorized alien societies, to refer to members in the United States admitted to the society on and after January first, nineteen hundred forty.