31A-16-101.   Scope and purpose of chapter.
     (1) This chapter applies to all persons doing an insurance business in Utah.
     (2) The purposes of this chapter include:
     (a) exercising surveillance over the acquisition of a domestic insurer, to ensure that in the process of making it part of an insurance holding company system, the interests of policyholders, shareholders, and the public are not harmed;
     (b) providing the regulatory monitoring of those intercorporate relationships and transactions among affiliates within an insurance holding company system that may affect the solidity of insurers;
     (c) controlling the payment of dividends that might affect the solidity of insurers; and
     (d) providing, in appropriate cases, recoupment of dividends paid.

Enacted by Chapter 242, 1985 General Session
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