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KRS 154.20-530: Mortgage insurance corporation -- Trust account.

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    The authority may cause to be established, by any number of natural persons not in excess

    of fifteen (15), a Kentucky nonprofit corporation which shall have as its purpose the

    insurance of mortgage loans entered into by and between lenders and persons or

    corporations located in Kentucky and offering gainful employment to the inhabitants of

    the Commonwealth. The mortgage insurance corporation shall not be deemed to have

    been established for the purposes of this chapter unless and until its articles of

    incorporation shall have been approved by the authority, and if so approved, no approval

    by the Department of Insurance shall be required. Such articles of incorporation, in order

    to secure such approval, shall contain, inter alia, the following provisions:

    (1) The corporation shall be designated "Kentucky Mortgage Insurance and Guarantee

    Corporation;"

    (2) No member of the board of directors of the insurance corporation shall receive any

    emoluments for his services thereon, except that he may be reimbursed for

    expenditures incurred by him in the performance of duties for the insurance

    corporation;

    (3) All assistance fees received by the insurance corporation shall be held in a trust

    account in one or more banks and trust companies having a principal place of

    business in the Commonwealth;

    (4) The trust account shall be held for the security of the holders of mortgage loans or

    bonds guaranteed by the insurance corporation, except that provision may be made

    for the payment of expenses of the insurance corporation from the trust account or a

    segregated portion thereof;

    (5) The trust account shall be governed by a trust agreement entered into by and

    between the insurance corporation and the trustee or trustees. Said trust agreement

    shall contain such lawful provisions an d limitations as may be deemed appropriate,

    and may include a pledge of premiums and other moneys deposited in the fund to

    the payment of the obligations insured by the insurance corporation; and

    (6) The trust agreement shall make appropriate provisions fo r the investment by the

    trustee or trustees of funds in the trust account for the benefit of the insurance

    corporation and of any claimants against the trust account. The moneys so pledged

    and thereafter received by the trust account shall be subject to th e lien of such

    pledge without any further act, and the lien of such pledge shall be valid and

    binding against all parties in accordance with the terms of the trust agreement.

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