Section 27-1-8

Life insurance companies may invest in notes secured by mortgages or deeds of trust.

(a) Any life insurance company of this state, for the purpose of investing its capital, surplus and other funds, or any part thereof, other than the deposit fund, may invest in notes secured by mortgages or trust deeds on unencumbered real estate located within the United States whose principal amount shall not be more than three fourths of the value of said real estate. For the purposes of this section, real estate shall not be deemed to be encumbered within the meaning of this section by reason of the existence of taxes or assessments that are not delinquent, instruments creating or reserving mineral, oil or timber rights, rights-of-way, joint driveways, sewer rights, public utility easements, rights in walls, nor by reason of building restrictions or other restrictive covenants nor when such real estate is subject to lease in whole or in part whereby rents or profits are reserved to the owner; provided, that the security created by the mortgage or trust deed on such real estate securing such note is a first lien upon such real estate and that there is no condition or right of reentry or forfeiture under which such lien can be cut off, subordinated or otherwise disturbed.

(b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to affect or limit the right heretofore granted to life insurance companies to invest funds in mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Commissioner or his successors or to loans guaranteed or insured by the Veterans Administration; nor shall anything contained in this section apply to purchase money obligations.

(Acts 1943, No. 438, p. 403; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 86, p. 2003.)