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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="21-101" title_number="21" title_name="Surety Insurance" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A surety insurer qualified to act as surety or guarantor under this article may execute:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a bond, undertaking, recognizance, or other obligation that is required or allowed to be made, given, tendered, or filed with a surety by law or in the charter, ordinances, rules, or regulations of a municipal corporation, board, body, organization, court, judge, or public officer; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a guaranty of the performance of an act, duty, or obligation, or the refraining from an act, that is required or allowed to be guaranteed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The execution by a qualified surety insurer of a bond, undertaking, recognizance, obligation, or guaranty is in full compliance with each requirement of each law, charter, ordinance, rule, or regulation that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the bond, undertaking, recognizance, obligation, or guaranty shall be executed by a surety; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the surety shall be a resident, householder, or freeholder, or either or both, or shall have any other qualifications.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each court, judge, department head, board, body, municipal corporation, and public officer shall accept a bond, undertaking, recognizance, obligation, or guaranty executed by a qualified surety insurer and treat it as conforming to and fully complying with each requirement of each applicable law, charter, ordinance, rule, or regulation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A surety insurer may be released from its liability on a bond, undertaking, recognizance, obligation, or guaranty executed under subsection (a) of this section on the same terms and conditions provided by law for the release of an individual surety.</text>
  </level>
</section>
