CHAPTER 8. Underwriters Fire Patrols [10020. - 10080.]
Chapter 8 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.
§§ 10020–10080 · 18 sections
ARTICLE 1. Scope of Chapter and Definitions §§ 10020–10022 · 3 sections
- § 10020 As used in this chapter, an underwriters’ corps means a corps of men with proper officers and equipment, maintained to discover and prevent fires and save life…
- § 10021 This chapter shall not impair or interfere with the powers or duties of the regular fire department of any municipality.
- § 10022 Any act of an underwriters’ corps shall not justify any owner of any property in abandoning such property.
ARTICLE 2. Formation and Organization § 10040 · 1 section
- § 10040 Any domestic corporation of insurance underwriters, organized to discover and prevent fires and save life and property from fire and doing business within any…
ARTICLE 3. Powers §§ 10050–10052 · 3 sections
- § 10050 For the effective discharge of such duties, an underwriter’s corps may enter any burning building or any building in which property is burning, or any building…
- § 10051 Such corporation, with its officers and corps, when going to a fire with its equipment, has the same right of way as the regular fire department of the…
- § 10052 All ordinances passed by the municipal authorities of any city or town wherein such a corporation carries on business, and all laws of this State applicable to…
ARTICLE 4. Meetings and Assessments §§ 10070–10080 · 11 sections
- § 10070 In July of every year, there shall be held a meeting of every corporation created for the purpose specified in this chapter.
- § 10071 Ten days’ notice of the meeting shall be inserted in at least one daily newspaper published in the municipality in which the corporation is established.
- § 10072 At such meeting each insurer or insurance agent, doing a fire insurance business in the municipality, whether a member of the corporation or not, has a right…
- § 10073 A majority of the whole number so represented may decide the question of sustaining the fire patrol organized by the corporation and may fix the maximum amount…
- § 10074 The amount of expense so fixed shall not exceed two per cent of the aggregate premiums returned as received, as provided in section 10076. The whole of such…
- § 10075 Such assessment is collectible by and in the name of the corporation, in any court of competent jurisdiction, in such manner and at such time or times as the…
- § 10076 In order to pay persons employed by the corporation, and to maintain apparatus for saving life and property and suitable quarters the corporation may require a…
- § 10077 Each statement shall be under oath and shall be handed to the secretary of the corporation within ten days after each first day of July and each first day of…
- § 10078 The secretary of such corporation shall, within the prescribed ten days, by written demand signed by him, require the statement from every person assessable…
- § 10079 The demand may be delivered personally at the office of every person required to furnish the statement. Every such person, or officer thereof, who, for fifteen…
- § 10080 The corporation may bring action to recover such penalty, with costs, in any court of competent jurisdiction.