479A.12  Financial condition of company--bond or other security.

Before construction is begun by a pipeline company, the company shall satisfy the board that the company has property subject to execution within this state other than pipelines, of a value in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, or the company must file and maintain with the board a surety bond in the penal sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars with surety approved by the board, conditioned that the company will pay any and all damages legally recovered against it growing out of the construction, abandonment, or operation of its pipeline and underground storage facilities in this state, or the company shall deposit with the board security satisfactory to the board as a guaranty for the payment of that amount of damages, or furnish to the board satisfactory proofs of its solvency and financial ability to pay that amount of damages.

Section History: Recent form

  88 Acts, ch 1074, §12; 98 Acts, ch 1093, §1


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