Qualified Charitable Risk Pool Law and Legal Definition
According to 26 USCS § 501 (n), [Title 26. Internal Revenue Code; Subtitle A. Income Taxes; Chapter 1. Normal Taxes and Surtaxes; Subchapter F. Exempt Organizations; Part I. General Rule] the term qualified charitable risk pool means:
(2). For purposes of this subsection, the term "qualified charitable risk pool" means any organization--
(A) which is organized and operated solely to pool insurable risks of its members (other than risks related to medical malpractice) and to provide information to its members with respect to loss control and risk management,
(B) which is comprised solely of members that are organizations described in subsection (c)(3) and exempt from tax under subsection (a), and
(C) which meets the organizational requirements of paragraph (3).
(3) Organizational requirements. An organization (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the "risk pool") meets the organizational requirements of this paragraph if--
(A) such risk pool is organized as a nonprofit organization under State law provisions authorizing risk pooling arrangements for charitable organizations,
(B) such risk pool is exempt from any income tax imposed by the State (or will be so exempt after such pool qualifies as an organization exempt from tax under this title),
(C) such risk pool has obtained at least $ 1,000,000 in startup capital from nonmember charitable organizations,
(D) such risk pool is controlled by a board of directors elected by its members, and
(E) the organizational documents of such risk pool require that--
(i) each member of such pool shall at all times be an organization described in subsection (c)(3) and exempt from tax under subsection (a),
(ii) any member which receives a final determination that it no longer qualifies as an organization described in subsection (c)(3) shall immediately notify the pool of such determination and the effective date of such determination, and
(iii) each policy of insurance issued by the risk pool shall provide that such policy will not cover the insured with respect to events occurring after the date such final determination was issued to the insured.
An organization shall not cease to qualify as a qualified charitable risk pool solely by reason of the failure of any of its members to continue to be an organization described in subsection (c)(3) if, within a reasonable period of time after such pool is notified as required under subparagraph (E)(ii), such pool takes such action as may be reasonably necessary to remove such member from such pool."
