An interlocal risk management agency is not an insurance company or an insurer under the laws of this state and the development and administration by such agency of one or more group self-insurance funds shall not constitute doing an insurance business. Intergovernmental agreements providing for the creation and maintenance of an interlocal risk management agency shall not be deemed to constitute insurance as defined by R.S. 22:46, nor shall the interlocal risk management agency or the development of a group self- insurance fund be subject to the provisions of Title 22, Chapter I, of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
La. R.S. § 33:1345