(a) A policy or bond is not effective under section 15-105 unless: (1) Issued by an insurer or surety company authorized to do business in this state; or (2) issued by an insurer or surety company not authorized to do business in this state but found by the Insurance Commissioner to afford adequate protection and which has filed or shall file with the Insurance Commissioner a power of attorney authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to accept service on its behalf of notice or process in any action upon the policy or bond arising out of such accident; (3) if the accident results in bodily injury to or death of a person not a passenger, the policy or bond provides coverage of not less than ten thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any accident and twenty thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident; (4) if the accident involves an aircraft being operated for hire and the accident results in bodily injury to or death of a passenger, the policy or bond provides coverage of not less than twenty thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and not less than twenty thousand dollars multiplied by the number of passenger seats in the aircraft because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident; (5) if the accident involves an aircraft not being operated for hire and the accident results in bodily injury to or death of a passenger, the policy or bond provides coverage of not less than ten thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and not less than ten thousand dollars multiplied by the number of passenger seats in the aircraft because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident; (6) if the accident results in damage to or destruction of property the policy or bond provides coverage of not less than ten thousand dollars because of damage to or destruction of property in any one accident with the exception of the following property which is exempted from the security required under this chapter: Property owned, rented, occupied or used by, or in the care, custody or control of, the owner or operator or carried in or on the aircraft.

(b) The policy or bond need not cover: (1) Any liability on account of bodily injury to or death of any employee of the owner or operator while the employee is engaged in the duties of his employment; or (2) any obligation for which the owner or operator or his insurer may be held liable under any workers' compensation law.

(1959, P.A. 488, S. 5; 1961, P.A. 26; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 79-376, S. 18; P.A. 80-482, S. 38, 348.)

History: 1961 act substituted “insurance commissioner” for department in Subsec. (a) (2); P.A. 77-614 placed insurance commissioner within the department of business regulation and made insurance department a division of that department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-376 replaced “workmen's compensation” with “workers' compensation”; P.A. 80-482 deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation, restoring division of insurance as an independent department with commissioner as its head.

See Sec. 15-87 re service of process against nonresident owners and operators.