1. 1. A title insurer, before issuing any title insurance policy covering property located in this state, shall deposit with the director of the department of insurance, hereinafter referred to as the director, a sum of four hundred thousand dollars, which shall be held for the security and protection of the holders or beneficiaries under its title insurance policies.
2. 2. Assets deposited pursuant to this section may, with the approval of the director, be exchanged from time to time for other assets that qualify under subsection 3 of this section.
3. 3. The depositing title insurer shall receive the income, interests, and dividends on any assets deposited. The deposit required under this section may be made in legal tender or in investments now or hereafter permitted to domestic life insurers with regard to their capital, reserve and surplus. For capital and reserve deposits, sums deposited pursuant to this section shall be valued at their market value.
4. 4. A title insurer that has deposited assets pursuant to this section may, with the approval of the director, withdraw any part of the assets so deposited. If any such title insurer continues to engage in the business of title insurance, it shall not be permitted to withdraw assets that would reduce the amount of its deposits below the amount required by subsection 1 of this section.
5. 5. In lieu of such a deposit maintained in this state, the director shall accept a certificate or certificates in proper form of the public officer or officers having general supervision of title insurers in its state of domicile to the effect that a deposit or total deposits, in an equal or greater amount, in classes of investment authorized in such state, are being maintained for like purposes in public custody or control pursuant to the laws of such state on behalf of the title insurer.
6. 6. If sections 381.011 to 381.241 require a greater amount of capital and surplus or deposits than that required of a title insurer prior to September 28, 1987, such title insurer shall have three years after September 28, 1987, to comply with any such increased requirement.
7. 7. The provisions of sections 375.950 to 375.990, RSMo, shall apply to the impairment of capital, liquidation, and rehabilitation of title insurers.

(L. 1987 S.B. 251 § 7, Repealed L. 2000 S.B. 894)

(2002) Senate Bill 894 provision declared unconstitutional as a violation of the clear title requirement of Art. III, Section 23. Home Builders of Greater St. Louis v. State, 75 S.W.3d 267 (Mo.banc).