Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:48-3

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • sworn: includes "affirmed. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The Commissioner of Banking and Insurance may issue such certificate of authority to any such hospital service corporation of this State when it shall have filed in the Department of Banking and Insurance a certified copy of its charter or certificate of incorporation, a copy of its constitution or by-laws, a statement of its financial condition in such form and detail as the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall require, signed and sworn to by its president and secretary or other proper officers, and the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance is satisfied, on the basis of examination or otherwise, that the corporation has complied with the requirements of this chapter and that its condition or methods of operation are not such as would render its operations hazardous to the public or to its subscribers. No change in, amendment to, alteration in, addition to, or substitution for any document, instrument or other paper so filed shall become operative or effective until the same shall also have been filed in a similar manner. No such certificate of authority shall be issued to any hospital service corporation not incorporated under the laws of this State.

L.1938, c. 366, p. 925, s. 3.

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