Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 37 - INSURANCE
Part XIII - Regulations
Chapter 71 - Regulation 24-Proxies, Consents and Authorizations of Domestic Stock Insurers
Section XIII-7107 - Definitions

A. The definitions and instructions set out in Schedule SIS, as promulgated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shall be applicable for purposes of this regulation.

Solicit and Solicitation- for purposes of this regulation shall include:

a. any request for a proxy, whether or not accompanied by or included in a form of proxy; or

b. any request to execute or not to execute, or to revote, a proxy;

c. the furnishing of a proxy or other communication to security holders under circumstances reasonably calculated to result in the procurement, withholding or revocation of a proxy.

Solicit and Solicitation- shall not include:

a. any solicitation by a person in respect of equity security of which he is the beneficial owner;

b. action by a broker or other person in respect to equity security carried in his name or in the name of his nominee in forwarding to the beneficial owner of such equity security soliciting material received from the company, or impartially instructing such beneficial owner to forward a proxy to the person, if any, to whom the beneficial owner desires to give a proxy, or impartially requesting instructions from the beneficial owner with respect to the authority to be conferred by the proxy and stating that a proxy will be given if the instructions are received by a certain date;

c. the furnishing of a form of proxy to a security holder upon the unsolicited request of such security holder, or the performance by any person of ministerial acts on behalf of a person soliciting a proxy.