§ 27-2-5. Minimum capital and surplus requirements - Maximum amount of single risk. No insurance company not incorporated under the authority of this state shall make any contract of insurance with any person in this state unless the capital stock of the company is at least equal to one million dollars ($1,000,000) and the gross paid in and contributed surplus of the company is at least equal to two million dollars ($2,000,000) or, if a mutual company, its net assets over all liabilities amount to not less than three million dollars ($3,000,000), nor unless the company, if other than a life insurance company, shall be restricted, by its charter or otherwise, so that it cannot lawfully incur in any one risk a greater hazard than one-tenth (1/10) part of its capital and surplus if a stock company or of its net assets if a mutual company; provided, that no fire, marine, or fire and marine insurance company of any foreign country shall make any contract of insurance with any person in this state unless the company has two million dollars ($2,000,000) paid-in capital stock and four million dollars ($4,000,000) surplus, or if a foreign mutual company its net assets over all liabilities amount to not less than six million dollars ($6,000,000) and shall have made a deposit with the insurance commissioner of this state, or with the proper officer of some other state of the United States, of not less than two million dollars ($2,000,000) in securities which shall be at all times at or above par and in trust for the benefit of its policyholders in the United States, or if a mono-line business company as defined in this title, has a combined capital and surplus of two million dollars ($2,000,000). Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to apply to foreign insurance companies licensed prior to May 13, 1977.
History of Section. (G.L. 1896, ch. 182, § 8; P.L. 1906, ch. 1324, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 220, § 8; G.L. 1923, ch. 256, § 8; G.L. 1938, ch. 151, § 8; P.L. 1953, ch. 3174, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 27-2-5; P.L. 1977, ch. 278, § 1; P.L. 1992, ch. 415, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 122, § 2.)
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