[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR223.18]

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                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
         CHAPTER II--FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 223--SURETY COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 223.18  Performance of agency obligations.

    (a) Every company shall promptly honor its bonds naming the United 
States or one of its agencies or instrumentalities as obligee. If an 
agency's demand upon a company on behalf of the agency or laborers, 
materialmen, or suppliers (on payment bonds), for payment of a claim 
against it is not settled to the agency's satisfaction, and the agency's 
review of the situation thereafter establishes that the default is clear 
and the company's refusal to pay is not based on adequate grounds, the 
agency may make a report to the Secretary of the Treasury, including a 
copy of the subject bond, the basis for the claim against the company, a 
chronological resume of efforts to obtain payment, a statement of all 
reasons offered for non-payment, and a statement of the agency's views 
on the matter.
    (b) On receipt of such report from the Federal agency the Secretary 
will, if the circumstances warrant, notify the company concerned that 
the agency report may demonstrate that the company is not keeping and 
performing its contracts and that, in the absence of satisfactory 
explanation, the company's default may preclude the renewal of the 
company's certificate of authority, or warrant prompt revocation of the 
existing certificate. This notice will provide opportunity to the 
company to demonstrate its qualification for a continuance of the 
certificate of authority.

[34 FR 20189, Dec. 24, 1969. Redesignated at 38 FR 22779, Aug. 24, 1973, 
as amended at 42 FR 8638, Feb. 11, 1977]