This text of South Dakota § 58-6-34 (Deposits through director--Purpose--Amounts required--Deposits in other states in lieu of deposit with director.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering South Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
The director may not authorize any insurer to transact insurance in this state unless it makes and thereafter maintains in trust through the director for the protection of all its policyholders in the United States, a deposit of cash or securities eligible for deposit under the provisions of this title relating to deposits and administration of deposits in an amount of two hundred thousand dollars or more, except that:
(1)As to foreign insurers, in lieu of the deposit, the director shall accept the certificate in proper form of the public official having supervision over insurers in any other state to the effect that a like deposit or part thereof by the insurer is being maintained in public custody or control pursuant to law in the state in trust for the protection of the insurer's po
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The director may not authorize any insurer to transact insurance in this state unless it makes and thereafter maintains in trust through the director for the protection of all its policyholders in the United States, a deposit of cash or securities eligible for deposit under the provisions of this title relating to deposits and administration of deposits in an amount of two hundred thousand dollars or more, except that: (1) As to foreign insurers, in lieu of the deposit, the director shall accept the certificate in proper form of the public official having supervision over insurers in any other state to the effect that a like deposit or part thereof by the insurer is being maintained in public custody or control pursuant to law in the state in trust for the protection of the insurer's policyholders in the United States. (2) As to alien insurers, in lieu of the deposit, the director may accept evidence that the insurer maintains within the United States by way of trust deposits with public depositories, or in trust institutions approved by the director, assets available for discharge of its United States insurance obligations. The assets shall be an amount not less than the outstanding liabilities of the insurer arising out of its insurance transactions in the United States together with a surplus equal to the greater of the following sums, the deposit required by this title to be made by a foreign insurer transacting like kinds of insurance, or three hundred thousand dollars.