Section 33-3-452 - Use of book-entry systems - rules(1)(a) Other provisions of law may not be construed as prohibiting a domestic insurance company from depositing or arranging for the deposit of securities held in or purchased for its general account and its separate accounts in a clearing corporation or the federal reserve book-entry system.(b) When securities are deposited with a clearing corporation, certificates representing securities of the same class of the same issuer may be merged and held in bulk in the name of the nominee of the clearing corporation with any other securities deposited with the clearing corporation by any person, regardless of the ownership of the securities. Certificates representing securities of small denominations may be merged into one or more certificates of larger denominations.(c) The records of any member bank through which an insurance company holds securities in the federal reserve book-entry system and the records of any custodian bank through which an insurance company holds securities in a clearing corporation at all times must show that the securities are held for the insurance company and for which accounts of the insurance company.(d) Ownership and other interests in securities subject to this subsection (1) may be transferred by bookkeeping entry on the books of a clearing corporation or in the federal reserve book-entry system without, in either case, physical delivery of certificates representing the securities.(2) The commissioner may adopt rules that include but are not limited to rules governing the deposit by insurance companies of securities with clearing corporations and in the federal reserve book-entry system and rules pertaining to evidence that must be provided to the commissioner with respect to the recording of securities.En. Sec. 3, Ch. 380, L. 2003.