When the actual funds of any foreign life insurance company authorized to do business in this state are not of a net value equal to the net value of its policies according to the combined experience or actuaries’ rate of mortality, with interest at four percent per annum, or by such higher standard as the company may have adopted, the commissioner shall give notice to the    company and its agents to discontinue the issuance of new policies in this state until its funds have become equal to its liabilities when its policies are valued as provided in this section. Any officer or agent who, after notice has been given, issues or delivers a new policy from and in behalf of the company before its funds have become equal to its liabilities as provided by this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. This section does not apply to a cooperative or assessment life association licensed to transact business in this state.