Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-3503

  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage guaranty insurance: means and includes: (1) Insurance against financial loss by reason of nonpayment of principal, interest or other sums agreed to be paid under the terms of any note or bond or other evidence of indebtedness secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument constituting a lien or charge on real estate, when the improvement on such real estate is a residential building or a condominium or townhouse unit or buildings designed for occupancy by not more than four families;

    (2) insurance against financial loss by reason of nonpayment of principal, interest or other sums agreed to be paid under the terms of any note or bond or other evidence of indebtedness secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument constituting a lien or charge on real estate, when the improvement on such real estate is a building or buildings designed for occupancy by five or more families or designed to be occupied for industrial or commercial purposes; or

    (3) insurance against financial loss by reason of nonpayment of rent or other sums agreed to be paid under the terms of a written lease for the possession, use or occupancy of real estate, when the improvement on such real estate is a building or buildings designed to be occupied for industrial or commercial purposes. See Kansas Statutes 40-3502

A mortgage guaranty insurance company shall not transact the business of mortgage guaranty insurance unless, if said company is a stock insurance company, it has paid-in capital of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000) and surplus of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000), or if said company is a mutual insurance company, it has a minimum surplus of two million dollars ($2,000,000).