[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR223.5]

[Page 67]
 
                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
         CHAPTER II--FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 223--SURETY COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 223.5  Business.

    (a) The company must engage in the business of suretyship whether or 
not also making contracts in other classes of insurance, but shall not 
be engaged in any type or class of business not authorized by its 
charter or the laws of the State in which the company is incorporated. 
It must be the intention of the company to engage actively in the 
execution of surety bonds in favor of the United States.
    (b) No bond is acceptable if it has been executed (signed and/or 
otherwise validated) by a company or its agent in a State where it has 
not obtained that State's license to do surety business. Although a 
company must be licensed in the State or other area in which it executes 
a bond, it need not be licensed in the State or other area in which the 
principal resides or where the contract is to be performed. The term 
other area includes the Canal Zone, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto 
Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

[40 FR 6499, Feb. 12, 1975]