Dividends on stock

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LA Code › Code revised-statutes › Title 22 › Section 86

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No domestic stock insurer shall declare and pay any dividends to its stockholders unless its capital is fully paid in cash and is unimpaired and it has a surplus beyond its capital stock and the initial minimum surplus required and all other liabilities equal to fifteen percent of its capital stock, provided that this restriction shall not apply to an insurer when its paid-in capital and surplus exceed the minimum required by this Code by one hundred percent or more.

Acts 1958, No. 125; Redesignated from R.S. 22:74 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 503, §1.

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Dividends on stock · La. Rev. Stat. § 22:86 | Frix