53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 698-AUG. 11 , 1939 SEC. 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered (a) to enter into contracts with individuals or groups of individuals to provide for hospitalization of such individuals, upon payment of specified rates or premiums, and to issue to such individuals appro- priate certificates evidencing such contracts; (b) to enter into con- tracts with hospitals for the care and treatment of such individuals, in accordance with the terms of such certificates; and (c) to cooperate, consolidate, or contract with groups or organizations interested in promoting and safeguarding the public health. SEC. 3 . Said corporation shall not be conducted for profit, but shall be conducted for the benefit of the aforesaid certificate holders. The business and affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by its board of trustees, who shall have full power and authority in the premises, including authority to provide for all expenses incident to the conduct and management of its business and affairs. The number of trustees shall be fixed by the bylaws, but shall be at least fifteen, and shall be maintained so as to be divisible into three equal classes. The incorporators are hereby declared to be the first board of trustees of this corporation, and their respective terms of office shall be as follows: General Frank T. Hines, Sidney F. Taliaferro, and Frank R. Jelleff, five years; Howard W. Kacy, Admiral Ross T. McIntire, and Arthur C. Christie, four years; Major General Charles R. Reynolds, Joseph H. Himes, and Charles S. White, three years; Mrs. Joshua Evans, Junior, Mark Lansburgh, and George H. O'Connor, two years; Roger J. Whiteford, Thomas W. Brahany, and E. Barrett Prettyman, one year. Upon the expiration of the respective terms of said trustees, their successors shall be appointed as follows: One by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, one by the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and one by a group consisting of the president or chairman of the boards of trustees or other desig- nated individual of each hospital with which the corporation shall have contracts for hospitalization, at a meeting called thirty days in advance by the president of Group Hospitalization, Inc. If either of the other two groups aforesaid shall fail to name their respective quotas of trustees at any time, then such trustees shall be selected by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. If the number of trustees shall be increased, each of the appointing authorities hereto- fore designated shall increase, proportionately, the number of trustees to be appointed by such appointing authority. Each of the trustees to be appointed as aforesaid shall serve for five years. SEC. 4 . The first board of trustees shall meet within ten days after the approval of this Act and elect a president, vice president, secre- tary and treasurer, and from time to time such additional officers as the bylaws may provide, and also transact such other business as may properly come before them, including the preparation for approval, from time to time, of the necessary bylaws for the proper conduct of the corporation. The treasurer shall give bond to the corporation with sufficient surety, in such penalty as the trustees determine, for the faithful discharge of his duty. Thereafter the meetings of the trustees shall be held at such time and place as provided in the bylaws. In case of vacancy in the board of trustees caused otherwise than by expiration of term of office, such vacancy shall be filled by the remaining trustees for the unexpired term of such former trustee. SEC. 5. The corporation shall file with the superintendent of insur- ance of the District of Columbia a certified copy of this charter, of its bylaws, and copies of the forms of contracts to be offered to the certificate holders, whereupon the company may commence operations under this charter. The corporation shall also file annually with said superintendent of insurance a statement disclosing the operations of 1413 Powers. Nonprofit business, conducted for benefit of certificate holders. Trustees. Incorporators de- clared first board of trustees; terms of office. Appointmentof suc- cessors. Meetings, officers, etc. Certified copy of charter to be filed with superintendent of in- surance, D. C . Report.
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