33-3-308. Prohibited pecuniary interest of officials. (1) Any officer or director or any member of any committee or an employee of a domestic insurer who is charged with the duty of investing or handling the insurer's funds shall not deposit or invest such funds except in the insurer's corporate name; shall not borrow the funds of such insurer; shall not be pecuniarily interested in any loan, pledge of deposit, security, investment, sale, purchase, exchange, reinsurance, or other similar transaction or property of such insurer except as a stockholder or member; shall not take or receive to his own use any fee, brokerage, commission, gift, or other consideration for or on account of any such transaction made by or on behalf of such insurer.
     (2) No insurer shall guarantee any financial obligation of any of its officers or directors.
     (3) This section shall not prohibit such a director or officer or member of a committee or employee from becoming a policyholder of the insurer and enjoying the usual rights so provided for its policyholders.
     (4) The commissioner may, by regulations from time to time, define and permit additional exceptions to the prohibition contained in subsection (1) of this section solely to enable payment of reasonable compensation to a director who is not otherwise an officer or employee of the insurer or to a corporation or firm in which a director is interested for necessary services performed or sales or purchases made to or for the insurer in the ordinary course of the insurer's business and in the usual private professional or business capacity of such director or such corporation or firm.

     History: En. Sec. 440, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-4723.