17:16A-4. Foreign investment companies; requirements for admission

Any investment company incorporated by authority of another State or Foreign Government, upon complying with the conditions hereinafter specified, may be admitted to transact in this State any business authorized by this chapter to be transacted by an investment company of this State. No such company shall be admitted until:

a. It shall file in the department a certified copy of its charter, or deed of settlement or certificate of organization, and a statement of its financial condition and business, in such form and detail as the commissioner may require, signed and sworn to by its president and secretary or other proper officer;

b. It shall satisfy the commissioner that it is fully and legally organized under the laws of its State to do the business it proposes to transact; that its condition or methods of operation are not such as would render its operation hazardous to the public or to its creditors in this State; that it has a fully paid-up, well invested and minimum unimpaired capital and surplus of not less than the amount required by section three of this chapter to be possessed by an investment company of this State;

c. It shall, by an instrument filed in the department, constitute the commissioner and his successor in office its true and lawful attorney, upon whom all original process in any action or legal proceeding against it may be served, and therein shall agree that any original process against it which may be served upon said commissioner shall be of the same force and validity as if served on the company, and that the authority thereof shall continue in force irrevocable so long as any liability of the company remains outstanding in this State;

d. It shall deposit with the commissioner securities amounting to at least thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) which securities shall be of such kinds and value as are prescribed for deposit by domestic companies by the provisions of section three of this chapter. The securities shall be held in trust for the benefit of the creditors of the company in this State. If any such company shall have and keep a deposit of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) in cash or such securities with any department or office of the State where the company is organized and the cash or securities so deposited are held in trust for all the creditors of the company, the commissioner shall not require the deposit of securities as herein provided;

e. It shall obtain from the commissioner a certificate that it has complied with all the requirements of this chapter applicable to it, and is authorized to transact business in this State. The certificates shall expire on May first next after their issue, and shall be renewed each year before May first. All certificates issued to investment companies by the commissioner under any other law and outstanding and in force at the effective date of this chapter shall continue in full force and effect until May first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine unless sooner revoked in the manner in this chapter provided.

L.1938, c. 322, p. 819, s. 4.