26-7-103. Eligible investments.
(a) Insurers shall invest in or lend their funds on the security of and shall hold as invested assets only eligible investments prescribed in this chapter.
(b) Any particular investment held by an insurer on January 1, 1968, which was a legal investment at the time it was made, and which the insurer was legally entitled to possess immediately prior to that date, is an eligible investment.
(c) Eligibility of an investment is determined as of the date of its making or acquisition, except as stated in subsection (b) of this section.
(d) Any investment limitation based upon the amount of the insurer's assets or particular funds relates to those assets or funds as shown by the insurer's annual statement as of December 31 immediately preceding the date of the insurer's acquisition of the investment, or as shown by a current financial statement resulting from merger of another insurer, bulk reinsurance or change in capitalization.
(e) An insurer authorized to transact insurance in a foreign country may make investments, in aggregate amount not exceeding its deposit and reserve obligations incurred in that country, in securities of or in that country possessing characteristics and of a quality similar to like investments in the United States.