(215 ILCS 5/278) (from Ch. 73, par. 890)
    Sec. 278. Reserve deposits. A company subject to this Article shall from time to time deposit with the Director, securities of the kind authorized for investment by a company transacting the kind of business enumerated in Class 1 of Section 4, in such amount that the market value of the securities deposited shall, at all times, be at least equal to the total of the reserved required by this Code on the life contracts issued by said company until there shall be on deposit at least $200,000. Thereafter, while the reserves on all such contracts are maintained, further deposits shall be optional with the company. Each separate deposit, except in the case of newly organized companies during the first 2 years of existence, shall be in the sum of not less than $1,000 and such securities may be deposited at any time. Any such company may at any time, withdraw any of such securities in excess of the minimum herein required and may from time to time exchange any of such securities by depositing others of the kind in which the company is authorized to invest, of equal value. So long as the said company shall remain solvent and maintain its deposits as herein required, it may collect the interest or other income of the securities deposited as the same may accrue. All such deposits shall be held by the Director in trust for the benefit of the holders of life contracts upon which contracts reserves at least equal to the minimum reserves prescribed by Section 281 are required. The Director may release the required deposit of securities upon receipt of an order of a court having proper jurisdiction or upon: (i) certification by the company that it has no outstanding life contracts on which reserves are required, life insurance policyholders, or policy obligations in effect and no plans to engage in the business of insurance; (ii) receipt of a lawful resolution of the company's board of directors effecting the surrender of its articles of incorporation for administrative dissolution by the Director; and (iii) receipt of the name and forwarding address for each of the final officers and directors of the company, together with a plan of dissolution approved by the Director.
(Source: P.A. 92-75, eff. 7-12-01.)