"Surety insurance" means:
1. Becoming surety or guarantor for any person, in any public or private position or place of trust, whether the guarantee is in an individual, schedule or blanket form; or
2. Becoming surety on or guaranteeing the performance of any lawful obligation, undertaking, agreement, or contract, including reinsurance contracts connected therewith, except policies of insurance; or
3. Becoming surety on or guaranteeing the performance of bonds and undertakings required or permitted in all judicial proceedings or otherwise allowed by law, including surety bonds accepted by state and municipal authorities in lieu of deposits as security for the performance of insurance contracts.
1952, c. 317, § 38.1-18; 1986, c. 562.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 38.2-100.1. Certified mail; subsequent mail or notices may be sent by regular mail
§ 38.2-101. Classification of insurance
§ 38.2-105.1. Modified guaranteed life insurance
§ 38.2-106.1. Charitable gift annuities
§ 38.2-107.1. Modified guaranteed annuity
§ 38.2-107.2. Private family leave insurance
§ 38.2-108. Credit accident and sickness
§ 38.2-109. Accident and sickness
§ 38.2-111. Miscellaneous property and casualty
§ 38.2-113. Burglary and theft
§ 38.2-115. Boiler and machinery
§ 38.2-117. Personal injury liability
§ 38.2-118. Property damage liability
§ 38.2-119. Workers' compensation and employers' liability
§ 38.2-122.1. Credit involuntary unemployment insurance
§ 38.2-122.2. Credit property insurance
§ 38.2-127. Legal services insurance
§ 38.2-128. Mortgage guaranty insurance
§ 38.2-129. Home protection insurance
§ 38.2-130. Homeowners insurance
§ 38.2-131. Farmowners insurance
§ 38.2-132. Commercial multi-peril insurance
§ 38.2-133. Contingent and consequential losses
§ 38.2-134. Definitions to include other insurance of same general kind
§ 38.2-135. Classes of insurance companies may be licensed to write