17:16A-8. Securities deposited with Commissioner

a. The commissioner may order a change of any of the securities deposited by any investment company incorporated under the laws of any other State or country as hereinabove provided, or any part of them, at any time during the continuance of the certificate of authority issued to the company, and during the same period the company may change the securities or any part thereof with the consent of the commissioner. The company so depositing securities shall be entitled to receive the dividends or interest thereon, and upon the termination of its authority to transact business in this State it shall be entitled to withdraw any part of or all of the securities. The amount of such deposit shall not be reduced by any withdrawal to less than the total outstanding liability of the company to its creditors in this State.

b. As to investment companies other than those affected by paragraph (a) of this section, the commissioner shall hold the securities deposited for the benefit and security of all the creditors of the company depositing them, but shall, so long as the company shall continue solvent and comply with all the requisites of the laws of this State applicable to it, permit the company to collect the interest or dividends on the securities so deposited, and, from time to time, with his assent, to withdraw any of such securities, on depositing with him other like securities, the par value of which shall be equal to the par value of such as may be withdrawn.

c. Whenever any investment company incorporated under the laws of this State shall voluntarily dissolve or a receiver thereof shall be appointed by the Superior Court, or shall have heretofore or hereafter become legally merged into another corporation, the commissioner shall thereupon deliver to such receiver or to the directors or trustees on dissolution, or to the corporation into which merged, the securities deposited as aforesaid, and upon such delivery the commissioner shall be relieved of all further responsibility or obligation in regard to the securities so deposited; provided, that said deposited securities shall not be delivered to the directors or trustees on dissolution until all proceedings in such voluntary dissolution shall have been first approved by the commissioner.

d. The securities deposited by any individual or partnership shall not be returned to such individual or partnership until after cancellation of his or its outstanding certificate of authority and the commissioner is satisfied, on the basis of such reasonable evidence and security as he may require, that all liabilities under his or its investment contracts have been fully discharged. In the event of death or insolvency of the individual or insolvency of the partnership, the commissioner may deliver such securities to the executor, administrator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy or such other legal representative as may be authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction to administer the estate of the deceased person or insolvent debtor. The commissioner shall not be liable for the surrender of securities pursuant to this subdivision.

L.1938, c. 322, p. 822, s. 8. Amended by L.1953, c. 17, p. 228, s. 97.