To apply for a solicitation permit, the person shall:

(1) File with the commissioner a request therefor showing:

a. Name, type and purpose of insurer, corporation, syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization formed or proposed to be formed;

b. Names, addresses, business background, and qualifications of each person associated, or to be associated, in the enterprise or in the formation of the proposed insurer, corporation, syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization;

c. Full disclosure of the terms of all pertinent understandings and agreements existing or proposed among persons so associated; and copies of all such agreements, relative to the proposed financing of the insurer, corporation, syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization, or the formation thereof;

d. The plan according to which solicitations are to be made; and

e. Such additional information as the commissioner may reasonably require;

(2) Submit to the commissioner:

a. The executed and acknowledged triplicate originals of the proposed articles of incorporation of any proposed domestic insurer, a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of any proposed domestic insurer, a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of any foreign insurer or of any other corporation proposing to sell its securities as referred to in Section 27-27-4, and copy of any syndicate, association, firm, partnership, organization, or other similar agreement, by whatever name called, if funds for any of the purposes referred to in Section 27-27-4 are to be secured through the sale of any security, interest, or right in, or relative to, such syndicate, association, firm, partnership, or organization and, if the proposed insurer is a domestic reciprocal insurer, an original and duplicate copy of the proposed power of attorney and of any other agreements proposed as affecting investors, subscribers, the attorney-in-fact, and the insurer or proposed insurer;

b. Original and duplicate copy of any proposed bylaws;

c. Copy of any security, receipt, or certificate proposed to be issued and copy of the proposed application or subscription agreement therefor;

d. Copy of any insurance contract proposed to be offered by a proposed domestic mutual or reciprocal insurer and copy of application therefor;

e. Copy of any prospectus, advertising, or sales literature proposed to be used;

f. Copy of proposed form of any escrow agreement required; and

g. Irrevocable appointment of the commissioner as process agent to receive service of process issued in this state arising out of any transactions under a solicitation permit, if issued, the appointment to be on a form as prescribed and furnished by the commissioner;

(3) Deposit with the commissioner the fees required under Section 27-4-2 and otherwise by law to be paid for the application, for filing of the articles of incorporation of an insurer, for filing the subscribers' agreement and attorney-in-fact agreement, if the proposed insurer is a reciprocal, and for the solicitation permit, if granted; and

(4) In lieu of a special filing of the information, or part thereof, called for in subdivision (1) of this section, the commissioner may, in his discretion, accept a duplicate copy of any filing made with any other state or federal agency relative to the same offering or proposed offering.