2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 22 - Insurance
RS 22:2327 - Plan; review and approval
§2327. Plan; review and approval
A.(1) The plan shall set forth the number, qualifications, terms of office, and manner of election of the members of the governing committee and a participant shall, in accordance with the plan approved by the commissioner of insurance, be entitled to receive credit annually for essential property insurance voluntarily written in the coastal areas and shall provide for the efficient, economical, fair, and nondiscriminatory administration of the plan and for the prompt and efficient provision of essential property insurance in the coastal areas of the state so as to promote orderly community development in those areas and to provide means for the adequate maintenance and improvement of the property in such areas.
(2) The plan also may provide for:
(a) The establishment of necessary facilities.
(b) Management.
(c) The assessment of participants to defray losses and expenses.
(d) Underwriting standards.
(e) Procedures for the acceptance and cession of reinsurance by the governing committee, or its designee, on behalf of plan participants.
(f) Procedures for determining the amounts of insurance to be provided to specific risks.
(g) Time limits and procedures for processing applications for insurance and for such other provisions as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner of insurance to carry out the purposes of this Part.
B. The governing committee of the plan may, subject to the approval of the commissioner of insurance, amend the plan at any time. The commissioner may review the plan at any time he deems expedient or prudent, but not less than once in each calendar year. After review of the plan the commissioner may amend it after consultation with the governing committee, or its designee, of the plan, and upon certification to the governing committee of the plan of such amendment.
Acts 2004, No. 761, §1, eff. July 6, 2004; Acts 2007, No. 459, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2008; Redesignated from R.S. 22:1441.6 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
