Tex. Insurance Code § 2651.101
BOND REQUIRED
Texas · Texas Insurance Code · Status: effective
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- Tex. Insurance Code § 2651.101, BOND REQUIRED, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/685072
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(a) Each licensed title insurance agent and direct operation shall make, file, and pay for a surety bond payable to the department and issued by a corporate surety company authorized to write surety bonds in this state. The bond shall obligate the principal and surety to pay for any pecuniary loss sustained by:
(1) any participant in an insured real property transaction through an act of fraud, dishonesty, theft, embezzlement, or wilful misapplication by a title insurance agent or direct operation; or
(2) the department as a result of any administrative expense incurred in a receivership of a title insurance agent or direct operation.
(b) The amount of the bond must be the greater of:
(1) $10,000; or
(2) an amount equal to 10 percent of the gross premium written by the title insurance agent or direct operation in accordance with the latest statistical report to the department but not to exceed $100,000.