56-2-405 - Admission of companies of other countries Deposits. - Tennessee Statutes

56-2-405. Admission of companies of other countries Deposits.

(a)  Any foreign company, if incorporated or associated under the laws of any government or state other than the United States, shall not be admitted until, besides complying with the conditions of §§ 56-2-101 56-2-103, 56-2-113 56-2-115, 56-2-201 and 56-2-301, it has made a deposit with the state treasurer, or with the financial officer of some other state of the United States, a sum of not less than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000).

(b)  The deposit must be in exclusive trust for the benefit and security of all the company's policyholders and creditors in the United States, and may be made in bonds of this state or of the United States, or of some state in the United States, or other good securities satisfactory to the commissioner.

(c)  The deposit shall be in lieu of any other deposit required of life insurance companies incorporated under the laws of any government or state other than the United States.

[Acts 1895, ch. 160, § 10; 1909, ch. 181, § 1; Shan., § 3293; Code 1932, § 6109; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 56-310, 56-232; Acts 1989, ch. 36, § 3.]