Okla. Stat. tit. 36, § 36-1624
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Acquiring or holding real property
Official statutory text
No insurance company, foreign, alien or domestic, doing business
in Oklahoma, may acquire or hold real property therein, except as
follows:
1. Such as shall be requisite for the convenient accommodation
of the transaction of its own business; the amount invested in such
real property shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the investing
company's admitted assets but the Insurance Commissioner may grant
permission to the company to invest in real property for such
purpose in such increased amount as the Insurance Commissioner may
deem proper on the showing made, if upon a hearing held the
Insurance Commissioner finds that the amount represented by such
percentage of its admitted assets is insufficient to provide
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 438
convenient accommodation for the company's business. Real estate
maintained for the convenient accommodation of the transaction of
its own business, permitted to be carried as an admitted asset of
the company pursuant to this section shall be carried at an amount
equal to its cost at the time of acquisition together with the
actual cost of improvements made thereon, less encumbrances and less
depreciation; provided, however, any real estate carried at fair
market value as an admitted asset of the company on November 1,
1989, shall be excluded from this provision;
2. Such as shall have been mortgaged to it in good faith by way
of security for loans previously contracted for monies due;
3. Such as shall have been conveyed to it in satisfaction of
debts previously contracted in course of its dealings;
4. Such as shall have been purchased at sales on judgments,
decrees, or mortgages obtained or made for such debts;
5. Such real property as shall have been acquired in whole or
in part, in exchange for real property of approximately the same
value theretofore legally acquired and held by it;
6. Real property and improvements thereon located in
incorporated cities and towns and as additions thereto or real
property and improvements wherever located acquired for sale or
lease, if such lessee or purchaser could have legally acquired the
same in the first instance, and may make improvements thereon for
commercial and industrial purposes as an investment for the
production of income. The phrase "commercial and industrial
purposes" shall not include real property primarily intended for use
or valued as agricultural, horticultural, farm, and ranch, unless
adjacent to other real property the ownership of which is permitted
under this section and was acquired prior to July 1, 2006. The
total amount invested in such real property and improvements thereon
shall not exceed the company's capital and/or surplus, or ten
percent (10%) of its admitted assets whichever is the lesser;
provided, however, the amount invested in any one investment shall
not exceed four percent (4%) of the company's admitted assets. The
admitted assets shall be determined by the company's last annual
report made as of December 31, immediately preceding and which has
been filed with the Insurance Commissioner as required by law, or as
shown by a current financial statement on file with the
Commissioner;
7. Real property acquired and held under Section 1612.1 of this
title; and
8. Subject to specific limitations otherwise applicable, no
more than an aggregate of thirty-five percent (35%), except as
provided in paragraph 1 of subsection C of Section 1622 of this
title, of the company's admitted assets may be invested in real
property pursuant to this section, purchase money mortgages pursuant
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 439
to Section 1623 of this title, and mortgage loans pursuant to
Section 1622 of this title.
in Oklahoma, may acquire or hold real property therein, except as
follows:
1. Such as shall be requisite for the convenient accommodation
of the transaction of its own business; the amount invested in such
real property shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the investing
company's admitted assets but the Insurance Commissioner may grant
permission to the company to invest in real property for such
purpose in such increased amount as the Insurance Commissioner may
deem proper on the showing made, if upon a hearing held the
Insurance Commissioner finds that the amount represented by such
percentage of its admitted assets is insufficient to provide
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 438
convenient accommodation for the company's business. Real estate
maintained for the convenient accommodation of the transaction of
its own business, permitted to be carried as an admitted asset of
the company pursuant to this section shall be carried at an amount
equal to its cost at the time of acquisition together with the
actual cost of improvements made thereon, less encumbrances and less
depreciation; provided, however, any real estate carried at fair
market value as an admitted asset of the company on November 1,
1989, shall be excluded from this provision;
2. Such as shall have been mortgaged to it in good faith by way
of security for loans previously contracted for monies due;
3. Such as shall have been conveyed to it in satisfaction of
debts previously contracted in course of its dealings;
4. Such as shall have been purchased at sales on judgments,
decrees, or mortgages obtained or made for such debts;
5. Such real property as shall have been acquired in whole or
in part, in exchange for real property of approximately the same
value theretofore legally acquired and held by it;
6. Real property and improvements thereon located in
incorporated cities and towns and as additions thereto or real
property and improvements wherever located acquired for sale or
lease, if such lessee or purchaser could have legally acquired the
same in the first instance, and may make improvements thereon for
commercial and industrial purposes as an investment for the
production of income. The phrase "commercial and industrial
purposes" shall not include real property primarily intended for use
or valued as agricultural, horticultural, farm, and ranch, unless
adjacent to other real property the ownership of which is permitted
under this section and was acquired prior to July 1, 2006. The
total amount invested in such real property and improvements thereon
shall not exceed the company's capital and/or surplus, or ten
percent (10%) of its admitted assets whichever is the lesser;
provided, however, the amount invested in any one investment shall
not exceed four percent (4%) of the company's admitted assets. The
admitted assets shall be determined by the company's last annual
report made as of December 31, immediately preceding and which has
been filed with the Insurance Commissioner as required by law, or as
shown by a current financial statement on file with the
Commissioner;
7. Real property acquired and held under Section 1612.1 of this
title; and
8. Subject to specific limitations otherwise applicable, no
more than an aggregate of thirty-five percent (35%), except as
provided in paragraph 1 of subsection C of Section 1622 of this
title, of the company's admitted assets may be invested in real
property pursuant to this section, purchase money mortgages pursuant
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 439
to Section 1623 of this title, and mortgage loans pursuant to
Section 1622 of this title.
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