2006 Massachusetts Code - Chapter 175 — Section 195. Fire insurance companies required to contributeto costs of training firefighting personnel.

Section 195. Sums for the estimated expenses of the operation of training facilities and curriculum for fire fighting personnel of the Massachusetts Fire Fighting Academy, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year, as may be appropriated therefor, and in addition the estimated cost of fringe benefits and indirect costs associated with such operation and curriculum, shall be paid to the commonwealth by insurance companies writing fire, homeowners multiple peril or commercial multiple peril policies on property situated in the commonwealth within thirty days after notice from the commissioner of such estimated expenses. The commissioner shall apportion such estimated charges among all such companies and shall assess them for the same on a fair and reasonable basis, not to exceed one-fourth of one per cent of their estimated gross premiums on such insurance written on property situated in the commonwealth. The commissioner shall subsequently apportion actual costs among all such companies and shall make assessment adjustments for the same for any variation between estimated and actual costs on a fair and reasonable basis, not to exceed one-fourth of one per cent of their actual gross premium on such insurance written on property situated in the commonwealth. Such estimated and actual costs shall include an amount equal to the cost of fringe benefits as established by the commissioner of administration pursuant to section six B of chapter twenty-nine.