508B.13  Prohibitions on certain offers to acquire shares.

Prior to and for a period of five years following the effective date of the conversion, and in the case of the plans of conversion specified in subsections 1 and 3 of section 508B.3, five years following the date of distribution of consideration to the policyholders in exchange for their membership interests, a person, shall not directly or indirectly acquire or offer to acquire the beneficial ownership of the reorganized company unless the acquisition is made pursuant to a plan approved by the commissioner, made pursuant to the plan of conversion, or made after the initial public offering from a broker or dealer of registered securities with the securities and exchange commission at the quoted price on the date of purchase. An approved plan may include a stock option plan. As used in this section, "beneficial ownership" means, with respect to a security, the sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting of the security or the sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of the security.

Section History: Recent form

  85 Acts, ch 127, §13; 90 Acts, ch 1234, §17


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