387.323—Electronic filing of surety bonds, trust fund agreements, certificates of insurance and cancellations.

(c) Filings may be transmitted online via the Internet at: http://fhwa-li.volpe.dot.gov or via American Standard Code Information Interchange (ASCII). All ASCII transmission must be in fixed format, i.e., all records must have the same number of fields and same length. The record layouts for ASCII electronic transactions are described in the following table:

Electronic Insurance Filing Transactions

Field name	Number of positions	Description	RequiredF=filingC=cancelB=both	Start field	End field
Record type	1 Numeric	1=Filing 2=Cancellation	B	1	1
Insurer number	8 Text	FMCSA Assigned Insurer Number (Home Office) With Suffix (Issuing Office), If Different, e.g. 12345-01	B	2	9
Filing type	1 Numeric	1 = BI&PD 2 = Cargo 3 = Bond 4 = Trust Fund	B	10	10
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FMCSA docket number	8 Text	FMCSA Assigned MC or FF Number, e.g., MC000045	B	11	18
Insured legal name	120 Text	Legal Name	B	19	138
Insured d/b/a name	60 Text	Doing Business As Name If Different From Legal Name	B	139	198
Insured address	35 Text	Either street or mailing address	B	199	233
Insured city	30 Text		B	234	263
Insured state	2 Text		B	264	265
Insured zip code	9 Numeric	(Do not include dash if using 9 digit code)	B	266	274
Insured country	2 Text	(Will default to US)	B	275	276
Form code	10 Text	BMC-91, BMC-91X, BMC-34, BMC-35, etc	B	277	286
Full, primary or excess coverage	1 Text	If BMC-91X, P or E = indicator of primary or excess policy; 1 = Full under § 387.303(b)(1) ; 2 = Full under § 387.303(b)(2)	F	287	287
Limit of liability	5 Numeric	$ in Thousands	F	288	292
Underlying limit of liability	5 Numeric	$ in Thousands (will default to $000 if Primary)	F	293	297
Effective date	8 Text	MM/DD/YY Format for both Filing or Cancellation	B	298	305
Policy number	25 Text	Surety companies may enter bond number	B	306	330

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