(a)

(1) No person other than the issuer shall make a tender offer for or a request or invitation for tenders of, or enter into any agreement to exchange securities for, seek to acquire, or acquire, in the open market or otherwise, any voting security of a domestic insurer if, after the consummation thereof, the person would, directly or indirectly, or by conversion or by exercise of any right to acquire, be in control of the insurer.

(2) No person shall enter into an agreement to merge with or otherwise acquire control of a domestic insurer or any person controlling a domestic insurer unless at the time the offer, request, or invitation is made or the agreement is entered into, or prior to the acquisition of the securities if no offer or agreement is involved:

(A) The person has filed with the Insurance Commissioner and has sent to the insurer a statement containing the information required by this section and §§ 23-63-507 -- 23-63-513; and

(B) The offer, request, invitation, agreement, or acquisition has been approved by the commissioner in the manner prescribed in this section and §§ 23-63-507 -- 23-63-513.

(b)

(1) For purposes of this section, any person controlling a domestic insurer seeking to divest its controlling interest in the domestic insurer in any manner, shall file with the commissioner, with a copy to the insurer, confidential notice of its proposed divestiture at least thirty (30) days prior to the cessation of control.

(2) The commissioner shall determine those instances in which the person seeking to divest or to acquire a controlling interest in an insurer will be required to file for and obtain approval of the transaction.

(c)

(1) For the purposes of this section and §§ 23-63-507 -- 23-63-513, a domestic insurer shall include any person controlling a domestic insurer unless the person, as determined by the commissioner, is either directly or through its affiliates primarily engaged in business other than the business of insurance. However, the person shall file a preacquisition notification with the commissioner containing the information set forth in § 23-63-527(b), sixty (60) days prior to the proposed effective date of the acquisition. Failure to file is subject to § 23-63-529(c).

(2) As used in this section, "person" shall not include any securities broker holding, in the usual and customary brokers' function, less than twenty percent (20%) of the voting securities of an insurance company or of any person which controls an insurance company.