2016 California Code
Insurance Code - INS
DIVISION 2 - CLASSES OF INSURANCE
PART 1 - FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE
CHAPTER 7 - Fraternal Fire Insurers
Section 9095.

9095. An association may, if it has issued an insurance policy against fire, endorse that policy to extend the coverage thereof to include loss or damage caused by windstorm, cyclone, tornado and hail, explosion, riot, riot attending a strike, aircraft, vehicles and smoke, and to include waiver of the fallen building clause. An association may also insure against (a) water damage from plumbing and heating systems, (b) rupture or bursting of steam or hot water heating system, (c) vandalism or malicious mischief, (d) vehicles owned or operated by the insured or by any tenant of the described premises, (e) glass breakage, (f) ice, snow and freezing, (g) fall of trees, (h) collapse, (i) burglary and theft, and (j) mysterious disappearance.

As used in this section explosion does not include explosions (a) of any boiler, heater, or other fired pressure vessel, caused by pressure of contents, (b) of any unfired pressure vessel or of any piping caused by pressure of contents or vacuum, (c) of any engine, turbine, compressor, pump, or wheel, (d) of any electrical apparatus, or (e) of any other machine having moving or rotating parts. This restricted definition of explosion does not exclude loss or damage by fire only where fire ensues.

As used in this paragraph, the terms boiler, heater, and pressure vessel, do not include hot water heaters used solely to provide hot water for delivery to faucets for domestic purposes and having a storage capacity of not more than 50 gallons.

(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)