USE OF ASSESSMENTS.

(a) Money from assessments is considered to supplement the marshalling of an impaired title insurance company's assets to make payments of covered claims on the impaired title insurance company's behalf and to pay administrative expenses related to payment of covered claims. The association may assess title insurance companies or use money from assessments to pay covered claims before the receiver exhausts the impaired title insurance company's assets.

(b) The association may use money from assessments to negotiate and consummate contracts of reinsurance or assumption of liabilities or contracts of substitution to provide for outstanding liabilities of covered claims.

(c) Except as provided by Section 2602.109, money from assessments may not be used for the guaranty fee account.