Article 2. Administrative Control of California Insurance Code >> Division 2. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 2.

The commissioner shall publish and maintain a complete list of all admitted surety insurers on the department's public Web site. The list shall set forth all of the following:
  (a) The full corporate name of the insurer.
  (b) The name of the state or country under whose laws the insurer is organized.
  (c) The date of the certificate of authority issued to the insurer to transact surety insurance in this state.

(a) Whenever the insurer's certificate of authority is surrendered, revoked, canceled, annulled, or suspended or whenever any such insurer, after such abrogation of its certificate again is admitted, the commissioner shall promptly update the list of admitted surety insurers on the department's public Web site to include the name of the insurer and the date of that abrogation of, or of renewal of, the certificate.
  (b) The list of admitted surety insurers maintained on the department's public Web site may be used by county clerks and others to confirm the license status of surety insurers.