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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58285</law_id><section_number>38.2-1000</section_number><catch_line>Incorporation of domestic stock insurers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-1410</reference><reference>38.2-1005</reference><reference>38.2-1005.1:1</reference><reference>38.2-1005.1:2</reference><reference>38.2-1005.1:7</reference><reference>38.2-1016.1</reference><reference>38.2-1019</reference><reference>38.2-1347</reference><reference>38.2-1358</reference><reference>38.2-1401</reference><reference>38.2-2507</reference><reference>38.2-3901</reference><reference>38.2-3904</reference><reference>38.2-3917</reference><reference>38.2-3923</reference><reference>38.2-4401</reference><reference>38.2-5500</reference><reference>38.2-5501</reference><reference>38.2-5800</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10">Organization, Admission and Licensing of Insurers</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Organization of Domestic Insurers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Domestic stock <span class="dictionary">insurers</span> shall be incorporated under the provisions of Article 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Incorporators" href="/13.1-618/">13.1-618</a> et seq.) of Chapter 9 of Title 13.1. A foreign <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> may become a domestic <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> under the provisions of Article 11 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Authority to amend articles of incorporation" href="/13.1-705/">13.1-705</a> et seq.) or Article 12 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/13.1-715.1/">13.1-715.1</a> et seq.) of Chapter 9 of Title 13.1. Except as otherwise provided in this title, domestic stock <span class="dictionary">insurers</span> shall be subject to all the general restrictions and shall have all the general powers imposed and conferred by <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 38-27, 38-28; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-71; 1956, c. 431; 1986, c. 562; 1995, c. 69; 2005, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
