This chapter applies only to domestic stock insurers formed for the purpose of transacting insurance as provided in section 6604.

     Any number of persons, not less than 13, may associate together and form an incorporated company for the following purposes, to wit:

     First, To insure railway employees against loss of position resulting from discharge, suspension or retirement;

     Second, To insure any person against bodily injury or death by accident, or against disability on account of sickness;

     Third, To insure the lives and health of persons and every insurance pertaining thereto, and to grant, purchase or dispose of annuities.

     The amount of capital stock of any company organized under the provisions of this chapter shall not be less than $200,000.00, in shares of the par value of $50.00 each.

     Such provisions of this code as are applicable to domestic stock insurers transacting life, disability, or casualty insurances as are not inconsistent with, or in conflict with provisions of this chapter are hereby made applicable to the operation of any insurer organized under the provisions of this chapter.

    (1) All contracts insuring railway employees against loss of position or of wages resulting from discharge, suspension or retirement shall contain a provision, in form approved by the commissioner, limiting the liability under said contract to an amount not greater than the average monthly wages earned at the effective date of the policy contract, and in the event that more than 1 contract shall be in force, to its pro rata share of said loss. No insurer shall solicit, by advertising or otherwise, where the risk to be insured against is covered by a prior policy in force with another insurer, the writing of a contract wherein the insured shall recover under its contract any more than the pro rata share of the loss as herein provided.

    (2) All contracts providing for such insurance shall be written only after a written application therefor shall be signed by the applicant wherein he shall be required to state whether he has similar coverage with another company and the amount of his average monthly wages.

    (3) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all insurers organized under or admitted to do business within the state of Michigan under the provisions of Act No. 256 of the Public Acts of 1917, as amended, or under the provisions of this code: Provided, That contracts of insurance, in force as of July 30, 1943, shall not be altered, amended or affected in any way by reason of the provisions of this section.