S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6299
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring reduction in
rates of premiums for commercial risk fire insurance on certain
historic sites owned and operated by a not-for-profit corporation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 2346-b
to read as follows:
S 2346-B. REDUCTION IN RATES OF COMMERCIAL RISK FIRE INSURANCE PREMI-
UMS; NONPROFIT HISTORIC SITES. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL PROVIDE FOR AN
ACTUARIALLY APPROPRIATE REDUCTION IN THE RATES OF THE FIRE INSURANCE
COMPONENT OF COMMERCIAL RISK INSURANCE PREMIUMS APPLICABLE TO A HISTORIC
SITE, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION 1.03 OF THE PARKS,
RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAW, EQUIPPED WITH AN APPROVED
SPRINKLER SYSTEM AND OWNED AND OPERATED BY A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law, and shall apply to all policies issued, renewed,
modified, altered or amended on or after such date; provided that any
and all rules and regulations and any other measures necessary to imple-
ment any provision of this act on its effective date shall be promulgat-
ed and taken on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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