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§ 33-24-48. Acceptance of surety insurance companies as sureties upon bonds of persons or corporations; rights and liabilities of corporate sureties

GA Code § 33-24-48 (2018) (N/A)
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Any surety insurance company or any other corporation or company that may do a surety insurance business, incorporated and organized under the laws of this state or of any other state or a foreign country for the purpose of transacting the business of surety insurance, which has complied with all requirements of law for license to transact business in this state, upon proper proof of compliance and upon production of evidence of solvency and credit satisfactory to the judge, head of the department, or other officer or officers authorized to approve and accept bonds, may be accepted as surety upon the bond of any person, company, or corporation required by law to execute bonds in lieu of any surety or sureties otherwise required by law. Any surety insurance company or other company doing a surety insurance business may be released from its liability on the bond on the same terms and conditions as are prescribed by law for the release of individuals, it being the purpose of this Code section to enable the companies and corporations doing a surety insurance business to become sureties on all bonds required by law to be taken with all the rights and subject to all the liabilities of individual sureties.

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§ 33-24-48. Acceptance of surety insurance companies as sureties upon bonds of persons or corporations; rights and liabilities of corporate sureties