If any annual statement of any domestic mutual insurer heretofore or hereafter filed with the commissioner sets forth a number of life insurance policies of the insurer in force in excess of ten million, such insurer shall thereafter during its corporate existence be subject to the provisions of sections 17B:18-18 to 17B:18-28, inclusive, any provisions of law or of the certificate of incorporation or charter of the corporation to the contrary notwithstanding. When any domestic mutual insurer at any time after the effective date of this Code files for the first time during its corporate existence an annual statement which shows that the number of life insurance policies of said insurer then in force is in excess of ten million, it shall immediately cause to be filed with the commissioner a certificate of the number of life insurance policies so set forth in such annual statement and the commissioner shall cause a copy thereof, duly certified by the commissioner, to be delivered to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

L.1971, c. 144, s. 17B:18-28