33-26-104. Surety insurers as sole surety on official bonds -- release. (1) Whenever any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or other obligation is by law or the charter, ordinance, or rules of any municipality, board, body, organization or public officer required or permitted to be made, given, tendered, or filed, with surety or sureties, and whenever the performance of any act, duty, or obligation or the refraining from any act is required or permitted to be guaranteed, such bond, undertaking, obligation, recognizance, or guaranty may be executed by a surety insurer qualified to act as surety or guarantor as in this code provided. Such execution by such insurer of such bond, undertaking, obligation, recognizance, or guaranty shall be in all respects a full and complete compliance with every requirement of the law, charter, ordinance, or rule that such bond, undertaking, obligation, recognizance, or guaranty shall be executed by one surety or by one or more sureties or that such surety shall be a resident or householder or freeholder, or either or both, or possessed of any other qualifications. All courts, judges, heads of departments, boards, bodies, municipalities, and public officers of every character shall accept and treat accordingly such bond, undertaking, obligation, recognizance, or guaranty when so executed by such insurer, as conforming to and fully and completely complying with every such requirement of every such law, charter, ordinance, or rule.
(2) A surety insurer may be released from its liability on a bond referred to in this section upon the same terms and conditions as are by law prescribed for the release of individual sureties.
History: En. Secs. 413, 414, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-4502, 40-4503.
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