Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 31A > Chapter 37 > Part 7 - Dormancy

• Actuary: is a s defined by the commissioner by rule, made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
• Association: means a legal association of two or more persons that meets the following requirements:

  (a)	the persons are exposed to similar or related liability because of related, similar, or common business trade, products, services, premises, or operations; and

  (b)

  (i)  the association or the association's member organizations: (A)  own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer; (B)  have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurer; or (C)  have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company formed as a limited liability company; or (ii)  the association's member organizations collectively constitute all of the subscribers of an association captive insurance company formed as a reciprocal insurer. See Utah Code 31A-37-102 business of insurance: includes : (a)  providing health care insurance by an organization that is or is required to be licensed under this title; (b)  providing a benefit to an employee in the event of a contingency not within the control of the employee, in which the employee is entitled to the benefit as a right, which benefit may be provided either: (i)  by a single employer or by multiple employer groups; or (ii)  through one or more trusts, associations, or other entities; (c)  providing an annuity: (i)  including an annuity issued in return for a gift; and (ii)  except an annuity provided by a person specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3); (d)  providing the characteristic services of a motor club; (e)  providing another person with insurance; (f)  making as insurer, guarantor, or surety, or proposing to make as insurer, guarantor, or surety, a contract or policy offering title insurance; (g)  transacting or proposing to transact any phase of title insurance, including: (i)  solicitation; (ii)  negotiation preliminary to execution; (iii)  execution of a contract of title insurance; (iv)  insuring; and (v)  transacting matters subsequent to the execution of the contract and arising out of the contract, including reinsurance; (h)  transacting or proposing a life settlement; and (i)  doing, or proposing to do, any business in substance equivalent to Subsections (95)(a) through (h) in a manner designed to evade this title. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Captive insurance company: includes any of the following formed or holding a certificate of authority under this chapter: (i)  a branch captive insurance company; (ii)  a pure captive insurance company; (iii)  an association captive insurance company; (iv)  a sponsored captive insurance company; (v)  an industrial insured captive insurance company, including an industrial insured captive insurance company formed as a risk retention group captive in this state pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986; (vi)  a special purpose captive insurance company; or (vii)  a special purpose financial captive insurance company. See Utah Code 31A-37-102 Certificate: means evidence of insurance given to: (a)  an insured under a group insurance policy; or (b)  a third party. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Commissioner: means Utah's Insurance Commissioner or the commissioner's designee. See Utah Code 31A-37-102 Division: means the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands. See Utah Code 65A-1-1 Insurance: includes : (i)  a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind; (ii)  a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and (iii)  a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 insurance company: means a person doing an insurance business as a principal including: (i)  a fraternal benefit society; (ii)  an issuer of a gift annuity other than an annuity specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3); (iii)  a motor club; (iv)  an employee welfare plan; (v)  a person purporting or intending to do an insurance business as a principal on that person's own account; and (vi)  a health maintenance organization. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Pure captive insurance company: means a business entity that insures risks of a parent or affiliate of the business entity. See Utah Code 31A-37-102 Sovereign lands: means those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date of statehood and owned by the state by virtue of its sovereignty. See Utah Code 65A-1-1 Sponsor: means an entity that: (a)  meets the requirements of Section 31A-37-402; and (b)  is approved by the commissioner to: (i)  provide all or part of the capital and surplus required by applicable law in an amount of not less than $350,000, which amount the commissioner may increase by order if the commissioner considers it necessary; and (ii)  organize and operate a sponsored captive insurance company. See Utah Code 31A-37-102 Sponsored captive insurance company: means a captive insurance company: (a)  in which the minimum capital and surplus required by applicable law is provided by one or more sponsors; (b)  that is formed or holding a certificate of authority under this chapter; (c)  that insures the risks of a separate participant through the contract; and (d)  that segregates each participant's liability through one or more protected cells. See Utah Code 31A-37-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State lands: means all lands administered by the division. See Utah Code 65A-1-1 Surplus: means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301