Excess fund investments may be made by a life insurer having admitted assets aggregating in value not less than two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) in the following:

(a) Equipment obligations, securities, or certificates of any equipment trust evidencing rights to receive partial payments agreed to be made upon any contract of leasing or conditional sale.

(b) The purchase and ownership of machinery or equipment, which is or will within 30 days after acquisition become subject to contracts for sale or use under which contractual payments may reasonably be expected to return the principal of and provide earnings on the investment within the anticipated useful life of the property which shall be not less than five years.

Except upon the prior approval, in writing, of the commissioner, an investment may not be made under the authority of this section if at the time of the making of such investment it would result in such insurer then owning such obligations, securities, certificates, machinery and equipment in an amount exceeding five percent of such insurer’s admitted assets as determined by the insurer’s last preceding annual statement filed with the commissioner.

Any investment in a single piece of machinery or equipment shall not be made in excess of one percent of the insurer’s admitted assets or 10 percent of the aggregate of the insurer’s capital paid-up and unassigned surplus, whichever is larger.

(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1049, Sec. 1.)