Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-02-28

An act to amend section 16 of chapter SO of
the general laws of 1886 and section 10 of
chapter SO of the general laws of 1889
relative to the publication of Insurance
Statements.
Be it Enacted bv the Leoislative Assemblv of the
State OF North Dakota:
SECTION l. That section 16 of chapter SO
Of the general laws of 1885 be amended to
read as follows:
SEC. Is. Every Insurance Company do
ing business in this state must transmit to
the Commissioner Of Insurance a state.
ment of its condition and business for
the year ending on the preceding Slst day
OF December, which shall be rendered on
the first day of January in each year, or
within n month thereafter, except that
foreign insurance companies shall trans
nit their statements of business, other than
that taken in the United States prior to
the following first day of May. Such state
ment must be published at least three times
in a newspaper Of general circulation
printed and published in each judicial dis
trict Of the state in which said insurance
company shall have an agency, and a du-
plicate thereof, upon which shall be en-
dOrsed the names of the attorneys on
whom process of law can be served as re-
quired by this act, shall be filed in the
office of the register of deeds of the county
wherein the agency may be established,
but the provisions of this section as to the
appointment of attorney shall not apply to
companies organized within this state.
Statements for publication shall be made
out on blanks furnished by the commits.
sioner OF insurance., and the commissioner
Of assurances certificate of authority for
shall be published in connection with said
statement OF such company doing business
in this state. Proof of publication to-wit:
The printers affidavit Of the fact shall
be filed with the commissioner of
insurance in all cases, which affi-
davit shall state that said insur-
aaee e onelRaPf of na tSe aRu alS sa1a rate neT for
publishing legal notices, and that the full
amount named inures to the sole benefit
of the publisher or publishers thereof and
that no agreement or understanding for
the division thereof has been made with
any person, and that no part thereof
has been agreed to be paid to
affidavit of publication shall state in plain
terms the full amount authorized herein
has been charged and collected for such
publications; provided, the commissions OF
insurance shall select three newspapers Of
general circulation published in each Of
the judicial districts from which said COM
pany shall select one in which said state
ments shall be published. In each district
where there are one or more newspapers
publishing daily and weekly editions one
of such daily and weekly newspapers shall
be selected and said statement shall be
published n time in the daily edition and
two times in the weekly edition Of the
newspaper so selected and designated to
publish said statement, and the charge for
such publication shall be the same as it
three continuous insertions of said state
ment had been made in either the daily or
weekly editions only. "
Sec. 2. That section 10 of chapter SO, of
the general laws of 1889, entitled "Insur-
ance," be amended so as to read as follows:
SEC. 10. That section IL, chapter SO, laws
of 1886, be and the same is hereby amended
by adding to said section the following
words: And the proof Of publication
herein required shall be filed with the COM
missioner of insurance within four months
from the time of the filing of the annual
statement.
SEC. 8. This law is intended 70 define
the lawful rate for the publication of in
surance statements, and repeats sections l,
8 and 4 of chapter 81 of the general laws Of
1887, in so far as SAID sections have been
beld to refer to the publication of insur-
ance statements.
SEC. 4. WHEREAS, the insurance state
ments must be published as soon after the
first day of January as possible, and
whereas, the law now i'll force is mad
equate and an emergency exists therefrOm,
this law shall take effect and be in force
Immediately after its passage and ap-
Annrovad Eahruarv 10 1900.