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§ 425.224 — AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS FOR CAPITAL, SURPLUS, AND CONTINGENCY FUNDS: LOANS SECURED BY CORPORATE STOCK

IN § 425.224Title 4. REGULATION OF SOLVENCY · Part B. RESERVES AND INVESTMENTS · Ch. 425. RESERVES AND INVESTMENTS FOR LIFE INSURANCE · Art. D. AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS AND TRANSACTIONS FOR OTHER LIFE, HEALTH, AND ACCIDENT INSURERS

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(a)Subject to this section, an insurer may loan the insurer's capital, surplus, and contingency funds and take as collateral the capital stock, bonds, bills of exchange, or other commercial notes or bills or the securities of:
(1)a solvent corporation that has not defaulted in the payment of any debt during the five years preceding the investment; or
(2)a solvent corporation that has not been in existence for the five years preceding the investment, if:
(A)the corporation has succeeded to the business and assets and has assumed the liabilities of another corporation; and
(B)neither the successor corporation nor the corporation succeeded has defaulted in the payment of any debt during the five years preceding the investment.
(b)Subject to this section, an insurer may loan the insurer's capital, surplus, and contingency funds and take as collateral the bonds or notes of an educational or religious corporation that has provided for the payment of a sufficient amount of the first weekly or monthly revenues of the corporation to an interest and sinking fund account in a bank or trust company as an independent paying agent.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007.