2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 10 - Insurance
Article 11. Title Insurance
Section 10-11-105. Financial requirements prior to this article.
(1) Every domestic title insurance company which on July 1, 1969, has the capital required by law and whose reserve fund required by law has been approved by the state bank commissioner shall have until July 1 in the tenth year after July 1, 1969, to comply with the financial requirements of this article, but the capital and reserve fund of each such title insurance company shall at no time be less than that required by law immediately prior to July 1, 1969.
(2) The reserve fund required by law immediately prior to July 1, 1969, for each domestic title insurance company engaged in the business of title insurance shall be supervised by the commissioner on and after July 1, 1969. As soon as practicable, the state bank commissioner shall furnish to the commissioner a list of all such title insurance companies and an inventory of securities and deposits approved by said bank commissioner for the reserve fund of each such company, and shall deliver to the commissioner all such securities and deposits then on deposit with the state bank commissioner and all safe deposit box keys, deposit receipts, certificates of deposit, and other evidences or means of control thereof to the commissioner. Every bank, savings and loan association, or other escrow or depository agent is authorized to accept the substitution of the commissioner for the state bank commissioner on any certificate of deposit or deposit receipt or any authority to enter a safe deposit box with reference to any reserve fund of a title insurance company. Every such bank, savings and loan association, or other escrow or depository agent and the state bank commissioner shall be held harmless from any liability as a result of such substitution and shall take such action as may be necessary or advisable to effect such substitution.
Source: L. 69: p. 521, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 72-26-5.
