(a) The Insurance Commissioner shall make and enforce such reasonable regulations as he deems necessary to adopt and implement a fire, liability and allied lines underwriting facility as authorized in the Federal Property Protection and Reinsurance Act of 1968. Such liability coverage shall be limited to those forms of insurance available on the normal voluntary market on October 1, 1978, for single-family, two-family, three-family or seasonal dwellings. The same deductibles as are available on the normal voluntary market shall also be made available for commercial properties now eligible for fire and allied lines insurance. The authority to adopt and implement such regulations specifically shall include the power to establish the lines of insurance to be included and the procedures to be used in the implementation.

(b) All insurance companies licensed in this state to write any or all such lines of insurance shall participate in the program and be subject to all regulations issued under subsection (a) of this section.

(1969, P.A. 152, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 78-90; P.A. 80-482, S. 295, 348.)

History: P.A. 77-614 placed insurance commissioner within the department of business regulation and made insurance department a division within that department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-90 made commissioner's regulation duty mandatory rather than discretionary, made provisions applicable re liability coverage and added provisions limiting liability coverage in Subsec. (a); P.A. 80-482 restored insurance commissioner and division to prior independent status and abolished the department of business regulation; Sec. 38-114f transferred to Sec. 38a-328 in 1991.