The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 8 : Banking and Insurance
Chapter 121 : Fraternal Benefit Societies
(Cite as: 8 V.S.A. § 4496)-
§ 4496. Examination of foreign and alien societies
The Commissioner of Financial Regulation, or any person whom he or she may appoint, may examine any foreign or alien society transacting or applying for admission to transact business in this State. He or she may employ assistants, and he or she, or any person he or she may appoint, shall have free access to all books, papers, and documents that relate to the business of the society. He or she may in his or her discretion accept, in lieu of the examination, the examination of the insurance department of the state, territory, district, province, or country where the society is organized. The compensation and actual expenses of the examiners making any examination or general or special valuation shall be paid by the society examined or by the society whose certificate obligations have been valued, upon statements furnished by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. (Added 1959, No. 197, § 36, eff. Nov. 22, 1959; amended 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 25(b); 1995, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 38(a); 2011, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 2, 2012.)
