Texas Insurance Code Title 11, Chapter 2703 - Policy Forms And Premium Rates

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2703.001 - Compliance With Title And Rules
  (a) This section applies to a corporation organized under this title, a foreign corporation, and, to the extent that the corporation is engaged in the...
• Texas Section 2703.002 - Use Of Forms In General
  A title insurance company or title insurance agent may not use a form required under this title to be prescribed or approved until the commissioner...

SUBCHAPTER B POLICY PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2703.003 - Payment Of Premiums
  The premium for a title insurance policy or for another form prescribed or approved by the commissioner shall be paid in the due and ordinary...
• Texas Section 2703.051 - Certain Provisions Required
  A title insurance policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state to insure an owner of real property must include certain provisions, the form...
• Texas Section 2703.0515 - Certain Requirements Prohibited
  (a) A title insurance company is not required to offer or provide in connection with a title insurance policy an endorsement insuring a loss from...
• Texas Section 2703.052 - Duty Of Title Insurance Company
  (a) On a report to a title insurance company made by an insured after a title insurance policy has been issued that a lien, encumbrance,...
• Texas Section 2703.053 - Establishment Of Standards And Schedules
  The commissioner by rule shall establish standards and time schedules for implementing and handling claims by title insurance companies in accordance with this subchapter. Added...
• Texas Section 2703.054 - Authority Of Commissioner In Implementing Subchapter
  (a) The commissioner may adopt, by amendment to an owner title insurance policy or by separate endorsement to an owner title insurance policy, language to...
• Texas Section 2703.055 - Requirement Of Certain Provisions Prohibited
  The commissioner may not require by rule, or through adoption of a title insurance policy or other insuring form, that a title insurance policy delivered...

SUBCHAPTER C POLICY FORMS FOR RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY

• Texas Section 2703.056 - Exceptions; Mineral Interests
  (a) Subject to the underwriting standards of the title insurance company, a title insurance company may in a commitment for title insurance or a title...

SUBCHAPTER D FIXING AND PROMULGATING PREMIUM RATES

• Texas Section 2703.101 - Policy Forms For Residential Real Property
  (a) The commissioner shall prescribe an owner title insurance policy form to be issued in connection with a transaction involving residential real property in this...
• Texas Section 2703.151 - Fixing And Promulgating Premium Rates
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the commissioner shall fix and promulgate the premium rates to be charged by a title insurance company or...
• Texas Section 2703.152 - Factors Considered In Fixing Premium Rates
  (a) In fixing premium rates, the commissioner shall consider all relevant income and expenses of title insurance companies and title insurance agents attributable to engaging...

SUBCHAPTER E PROCEDURES REGARDING PREMIUM RATES, POLICY FORMS, AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS

• Texas Section 2703.153 - Collection Of Data For Fixing Premium Rates; Annual Statistical Report
  (a) Each title insurance company and title insurance agent engaged in the business of title insurance in this state shall annually submit to the department,...
• Texas Section 2703.201 - Hearing Required For Fixing Premium Rate
  Before a premium rate may be fixed and a premium charged, the department must provide reasonable notice and a hearing must be afforded to title...
• Texas Section 2703.202 - Hearing Required For Change In Premium Rate
  (a) A premium rate previously fixed by the commissioner may not be changed until after the commissioner holds a public hearing. (b) The commissioner shall...
• Texas Section 2703.203 - Periodic Hearing
  The commissioner shall hold a public hearing not earlier than July 1 after the fifth anniversary of the closing of a hearing held under this...
• Texas Section 2703.204 - Admission As Party To Periodic Hearing
  (a) Subject to this section, a trade association whose membership is composed of at least 20 percent of the members of an industry or group...
• Texas Section 2703.206 - Commissioner Authority To Hold Hearings As Necessary
  At any time, the commissioner may order a public hearing to consider adoption of premium rates and other matters relating to regulating the business of...
• Texas Section 2703.207 - Notice Of Certain Hearings
  Not later than the 60th day before the date of a hearing under Section 2703.202, 2703.203, or 2703.206, notice of the hearing and of each...
• Texas Section 2703.208 - Additions Or Amendments To Manual
  (a) An addition or amendment to the Basic Manual of Rules, Rates, and Forms for the Writing of Title Insurance in the State of Texas...

Last modified: September 28, 2016