Effective 28 Aug 1939

107.080. Corporate surety accepted, when. — Any company having a paid-up capital of not less than two hundred thousand dollars, organized and incorporated under the laws of this or any state of the United States, or any foreign government, for the purpose of transacting the business of becoming surety on the bonds or obligations of persons or corporations, or of insuring the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, and which has complied with all the requirements of the law regulating the admission of such companies to transact business in this state, may, on production of evidence of solvency satisfactory to the court, judge, clerk, head of department or other officer, person or persons authorized to approve the same, become and be accepted as surety on the bond, recognizance or other writing obligatory of any person or corporation in or concerning any matter in which the giving of a bond or other obligation is authorized, required or permitted by the laws of the state, and if such surety company shall furnish satisfactory evidence of its ability to provide all the security required by law, no additional surety may be exacted, but other surety may, in the discretion of the official authorized to approve such bond or obligation, be required; and such surety company may be released from its liability, on the same terms and conditions as are by law prescribed for the release of individuals, it being the true intent and meaning of sections 107.070 to 107.090 to enable corporations created for that purpose to become surety on any bond, recognizance or other writing in the nature of a bond, in the same manner that natural persons may, subject to all the rights and liabilities of such persons.

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(RSMo 1939 § 3239)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2851; 1919 § 1002; 1909 § 1209