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CHAPTER 28 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS

INSURANCE LAW
ARTICLE 1. General provisions. (§§ 101-111)

2. Organization of the department of financial services. (§§

201-214)

3. Administrative and procedural provisions. (§§ 301-343)

4. Insurance frauds prevention. (§§ 401-411)

5. Certificates of insurance. (§§ 501-505)

11. Licensing of insurers. (§§ 1101-1124*2)

12. Organization and corporate procedure. (§§ 1201-1221)

13. Assets and deposits. (§§ 1301-1325)

14. Investments. (§§ 1401-1415)

15. Holding companies. (§§ 1501-1510)

16. Subsidiaries of domestic property/casualty insurance

companies and certain other entities. (§§ 1601-1612)

17. Subsidiaries of domestic life insurance companies and

certain other entities. (§§ 1701-1717)

21. Agents, brokers, adjusters, consultants and intermediaries.

(§§ 2101-2139)

22. Certification of employees of insurers and savings banks

offering life insurance. (§§ 2201-2209)

23. Property/casualty insurance rates. (§§ 2301-2353)

24. Unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts

and practices. (§§ 2401-2409)

25. Prohibitions against controlled business. (§§ 2502-2505)

26. Unfair claim settlement practices; other misconduct;

discrimination. (§§ 2601-2617)

27. Holocaust victims insurance act of 1998. (§§ 2701-2711)

28. Use of credit information. (§§ 2801-2809)

29. Pharmacy benefit managers. (§§ 2901-2914)

31. Insurance contracts - general. (§§ 3101-3113)

32. Insurance contracts - life, accident and health, annuities.

(§§ 3201-3244)

34. Insurance contracts - property/casualty. (§§ 3401-3461)

41. Property/casualty insurance companies. (§§ 4101-4121)

42. Life insurance companies and accident and health insurance

companies and legal services insurance companies.

(§§ 4202-4241)

43. Non-profit medical and dental indemnity, or health and

hospital service corporations. (§§ 4301-4330)

44. Employee welfare funds. (§§ 4401-4414)

45. Fraternal benefit societies. (§§ 4501-4530)

46. Retirement systems. (§§ 4601-4608)

47. Municipal cooperative health benefit plans. (§§ 4701-4714)

48. Managed care health insurance contracts. (§§ 4801-4806)

49. Utilization review and external appeal. (§§ 4900-4917)

51. Comprehensive motor vehicle insurance reparations.

(§§ 5101-5109)

52. Motor vehicle accident indemnification corporation.

(§§ 5201-5225)

53. Motor vehicle insurance assigned risk plans. (§§ 5301-5304)

54. New York property insurance underwriting association.

(§§ 5401-5412)

55. Medical malpractice insurance association.

(§§ 5501--5517-a)

56. Health care arbitrations. (§§ 5601-5605)

59. Risk retention groups and purchasing groups. (§§ 5901-5913)

61. Reciprocal insurers and Lloyds underwriters. (§§ 6101-6116)

62. New York insurance exchange. (§§ 6201-6203)

63. Special risks; filing exemption. (§§ 6301-6304)

64. Title insurance corporations. (§§ 6401-6411)

65. Mortgage guaranty insurance companies. (§§ 6501-6508)

66. Co-operative property/casualty insurance companies.

(§§ 6601-6626)

67. Nonprofit property/casualty insurance companies.

(§§ 6701-6708)

68. Bail bonds. (§§ 6801-6805)

69. Financial guaranty insurance corporations. (§§ 6901-6909)

70. Captive insurance companies. (§§ 7001-7012)

71. Merger, consolidation, redomestication, acquisition of

assets and acquisition of certain shares of insurers.

(§§ 7101-7121)

72. Domestication of the United States branch of an alien

insurer. (§§ 7201-7205)

73. Conversion to different type of insurer. (§§ 7301-7317)

74. Rehabilitation, liquidation, conservation and dissolution

of insurers. (§§ 7401-7437)

75. Life insurance guaranty fund. (§§ 7501-7507)

76. Property/casualty security funds. (§§ 7601-7614)

77. The life insurance company guaranty corporation of New York

act. (§§ 7701-7719)

78. Viatical settlements. (§§ 7801-7820)

79. Service contracts. (§§ 7901-7913)

80. Mutual holding company. (§§ 8001-8021)

91. Taxes and fees. (§§ 9101--9111-c)

99. Time of taking effect. (§ 9901)

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Bank holding companies in New York State must register with the NYS Department of Financial Services (DFS).

Registration must happen within 180 days of incorporation. Companies must receive approval to acquire banks or use the word "bank" in their name.

Additional resources

For more information, contact:

NYS Department of Financial Services (DFS)
Bank and Trust Chartering
One State Street
New York, NY 10004-1417
Phone: (212) 709-1540
Website: http://www.dfs.ny.gov/

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