California Insurance Code

§ 12107

INS § 12107Div. 2 · Part 4 · Ch. 1 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)No insurer shall be issued a license to transact financial guaranty insurance unless it has paid-in capital of at least fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) and surplus of at least eighty-five million dollars ($85,000,000), and shall at all times thereafter maintain a minimum paid-in capital of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) and a minimum surplus of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000).

(b)An insurer licensed in this state and issuing or reinsuring financial guaranty insurance policies in this state prior to January 1, 1991, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a), be deemed to meet the combined paid-in capital and surplus requirements for transacting the financial guaranty insurance business during the period between January 1, 1991, and January 1, 1993, if it has combined capital and surplus of forty-five million dollars ($45,000,000), which includes paid-in capital of at least two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000).

(c)On and after January 1, 1993, every financial guaranty insurance corporation must fully comply with the condition in subdivision (a) that a minimum paid-in capital of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) be held and maintained.

Legislative history

Repealed and added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1032, Sec. 6.