Section 33-17-30. Merger of reciprocal insurers; conversion of reciprocal insurers to stock or mutual insurers

   (a) A domestic reciprocal insurer, upon affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of its subscribers who vote on the merger pursuant to due notice and the approval of the Commissioner of the terms for such merger, may merge with another reciprocal insurer or be converted to a stock or mutual insurer.

(b) Such a stock or mutual insurer shall be subject to the same capital or surplus requirements and shall have the same rights as a like domestic insurer transacting like kinds of insurance.

(c) The Commissioner shall not approve any plan for merger or conversion which is inequitable to subscribers or which, if for conversion to a stock insurer, does not give each subscriber preferential right to acquire stock of the proposed insurer proportionate to his interest in the reciprocal insurer as determined in accordance with Code Section 33-17-28 and a reasonable length of time within which to exercise such right.

(d) Reinsurance of all or substantially all of the insurance in force of a domestic reciprocal insurer in another insurer shall be deemed to be a merger for the purposes of this Code section.

Code 1933, § 56-2129, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.