17:48-4.Ā  Applications for hospital service contracts as condition precedentĀ  to issuance of certificate of authority
No certificate of authority shall be issued to any hospital service corporation except on receipt of evidence by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance that the corporation is in receipt of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) on bona fide applications for hospital service contracts fromĀ  not less than two hundred persons, which applications shall contain provisionsĀ  to the effect that any amounts collected with such applications will beĀ  returned to such persons if the certificate of authority applied for is notĀ  received by the corporation within one year from the date of the first of suchĀ  applications.Ā  The commissioner may refuse to issue any certificate ofĀ  authority applied for if, in his judgment, the issue thereof is contrary to theĀ  public interest.

L.1938, c. 366, p. 925, s. 4.
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