All domestic insurers qualifying to write service insurance only shall in lieu of the capital requirements of R.S. 22:81 or the minimum surplus requirements of R.S. 22:111 and 22:114, have a paid-in capital of ten thousand dollars and a minimum surplus of five thousand dollars, if a stock insurer, or a minimum surplus of fifteen thousand dollars, if a mutual insurer, before beginning business. All service insurers authorized as of 12:00 noon on July 27, 1960 may continue to operate without meeting the increased capital and surplus requirements.
La. R.S. § 22:134