§ 23-63-810 — Improvement district obligations

(a) An insurer may invest in bonds, notes, or evidences of indebtedness issued by any local improvement district in this or any other state to finance local improvements authorized by law if the principal and interest of the obligations is payable from assessments on real property within the local improvement district. (b) No investment shall be made if the face value of all obligations, together with all similar obligations of the improvement district outstanding, exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the real property and improvements upon which the bonds or the assessments for the payment of principal and interest thereon are liens inferior only to the liens for general ad valorem property taxes. (c) No investment shall be made unless no default in payment of principal or interest on the obligations to be purchased has occurred within five (5) years of the date of investment therein, or, if the obligations were issued less than five (5) years prior to the date of investment, no default in payment of principal or interest has occurred on any of the obligations of the issuer within five (5) years of the investment.

Legislative History

Acts 1959, No. 148, § 106; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-2610.