(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, an exchange, the attorney for which holds a certificate of authority, which has been in business as an insurer less than three years from and after the time when it commenced business as an insurer shall maintain its assets during the balance of such three-year period in the type of assets specified in Section 1373.1, excepting such of its assets as are in excess of the sum of its liabilities and the surplus required for issuance of a certificate of authority, other than a renewal certificate of authority. Upon its failure so to do the commissioner may revoke the certificate of authority. The proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and the commissioner shall have all the powers granted therein.
(b) This section shall not apply to an exchange, the attorney for which holds a certificate of authority on the effective date hereof, until January 1, 1954.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 544.)