Bill Text: MS HB552 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Volunteer fire departments; increase amount insurance company required to pay for response to fire.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee [HB552 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2014-HB552-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2014 Regular Session

To: Insurance

By: Representatives Carpenter, Alday, Barton, Pigott, Rushing, Staples, Taylor, Turner

House Bill 552

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 83-13-23, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM AMOUNT AN INSURANCE COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO PAY A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR EACH INITIAL RESPONSE TO SAVE CERTAIN STRUCTURES FROM DESTRUCTION BY FIRE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 83-13-23, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     83-13-23.  Any insurance company shall pay to the responsible volunteer fire department a minimum of * * *One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for each initial response to save from destruction by fire any structures which are located in areas rated as Class 9 or 10 and which are insured by that insurance company.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.

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