                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RESTRICTIONS ON REMOVAL OR TRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND ON REINSURANCE; PENALTY (§
38.2-216)

A. No domestic insurer shall remove from this Commonwealth either all or
substantially all of its property or business without the written approval of
the Commission.

B. No domestic insurer shall transfer or attempt to transfer substantially its
entire property, or enter into any transaction the effect of which is to merge
substantially its entire property or business into the property or business of
any other company, without prior written approval of the Commission.

C. No domestic insurer shall reinsure with any other insurer all or
substantially all of its risks without prior written approval of the Commission
of the reinsurance and of the contract under which reinsurance is effected.

D. No domestic insurer shall enter into or modify a reinsurance treaty or
risk-sharing arrangement without prior written approval of the Commission if for
any twelve-month period the reinsurance premium or anticipated change in the
ceding insurer&#8217;s liabilities equals or exceeds fifty percent of the
insurer&#8217;s surplus to policyholders as of the immediately preceding
December 31.

E. Any director or officer of the insurer consenting to and participating in any
violation of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 38-6; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-38; 1986, c. 562; 2000, c.
51.