17:18-3. Dealing in real estate; disposition of unnecessary real estate
Any insurance company of this State may purchase, hold and convey, such real estate as may be:
(a) Requisite for its accommodation in the transaction of its business;
(b) Conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings;
(c) Purchased at sales upon judgments or mortgages obtained or made for those debts;
(d) Conveyed to it pursuant to or in connection with any contract of reinsurance effected under section 17:34-13 of this Title; or
(e) Purchased or held as an investment for the production of income as permitted by section 17:24-1 of this Title.
No such company shall purchase, hold or convey real estate in any other case or for any other purpose. All real estate so acquired (except real estate held as an investment for the production of income as permitted by section 17:24-1 of this Title), not necessary for the accommodation of the company in the convenient transaction of its business, shall be sold and disposed of within five years after the company has acquired title thereto, unless it procures a certificate from the commissioner that the interests of the company will suffer materially by a forced sale of the real estate, in which event the time for the sale may be extended to such time as the commissioner directs in the certificate. Nothing herein contained shall prevent any company from improving and conveying its real estate, notwithstanding the lapse of five years without having procured the certificate. Real estate acquired by such company as provided in subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this section shall not be held as an investment for the production of income as provided in subsection (e) of this section unless such company shall have procured the approval of the commissioner.
Amended by L.1953, c. 17, p. 236, s. 107.
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