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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Section 15 Ski Safety
Section 24-15-4 Insurance.
NM Stat § 24-15-4 (2014) What's This?
24-15-4. Insurance.
A. Every operator shall file with the state corporation commission [public regulation commission] and keep on file therewith proof of financial responsibility in the form of a current insurance policy in a form approved by the commission, issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in the state, conditioned to pay, within the limits of liability herein prescribed, all final judgments for personal injury or property damage proximately caused or resulting from negligence of the operator covered thereby, as such negligence is defined and limited by the Ski Safety Act. The minimum limits of liability insurance to be provided by operators shall be as follows:
SKI SAFETY ACT | |||
LIABILITY INSURANCE | |||
LIMITS OF LIABILITY | |||
REQUIRED MINIMUM COVERAGES | |||
FOR INJURIES, DEATH OR DAMAGES | |||
KIND | LIMITS FOR | LIMITS FOR BODILY | |
AND | BODILY INJURY | INJURY TO OR DEATH | |
NUMBERS | TO OR | OF ALL PERSONS | |
OF LIFTS | DEATH OF | INJURED OR KILLED | PROPERTY |
OPERATED | ONE PERSON | IN ANY ONE ACCIDENT | DAMAGE |
Not more than three | | | |
surface lifts | $100,000 | $300,000 | $5,000 |
Not more than three | | | |
ski lifts, including | | | |
one or more | | | |
chair lifts | 250,000 | 500,00 | 25,000 |
More than three | | | |
ski lifts or one | | | |
or more tramways | 500,000 | 1,000,000 | 50,000. |
B. No ski lift or tramway shall be operated in this state after the effective date of the Ski Safety Act unless a current insurance policy as required herein is in effect and properly filed with the state corporation commission [public regulation commission]. Each policy shall contain a provision that it cannot be canceled prior to its expiration date without thirty days' written notice of intent to cancel served by registered mail on the insured and on the commission.
History: 1953 Comp., 12-16-4, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 218, 4; recompiled as 1953 Comp., 12-28-4, by Laws 1972, ch. 51, 9; 1997, ch. 211, 3.
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