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KRS 304.5-080: "Inland marine insurance," "wet marine and transportation insurance,"

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    and "marine protection and indemnity insurance" defined.

    (1) As used in this chapter, "inland marine insurance" means marine and transportation

    insurance that may cover or include:

    (a) 1. Imports, wherever the property may be and without restriction as to

    time, if the coverage includes hazards of transportation.

    2. An import, as a proper subject of marine and transportation insurance,

    shall be deemed to:

    a. Maintain its character if the property:

    i. Remains segregated in such a way that it can be identified;

    and

    ii. Has not become incorporated and mixed with the general

    mass of property in the United States; and

    b. Have been completed when the property has been:

    i. Sold and delivered by the importer, factor, or consignee;

    ii. Removed from place of storage and placed on sale as part of

    an importer's stock in trade at a point of sale or distribution;

    or

    iii. Delivered for manufacture, processing, or change in form to

    premises of the importer or of another used for any such

    purposes;

    (b) 1. Exports, wherever the property may be and without restriction as to

    time, if the coverage includes hazards of transportation.

    2. An export, as a proper subject of marine and transpor tation insurance,

    shall be deemed to acquire its character as such when designated or

    while being prepared for export and retain that character unless diverted

    for domestic trade, and when so diverted, the provisions of paragraph (c)

    of this subsection shall apply.

    3. This paragraph shall not apply to long -established methods of insuring

    certain commodities;

    (c) 1. Domestic shipments on consignment, for sale or distribution, exhibit,

    trial, approval, or auction, while in transit, while in the custody of

    others, and while being returned, except in no event shall the insurance

    cover on premises owned, leased, or operated by the consignor; and

    2. Domestic shipments not on consignment, if the coverage includes

    hazards of transportation, beginning and ending with in the United

    States, but the shipments shall not be covered:

    a. At the manufacturing premises; or

    b. After arrival at premises owned, leased, or operated by an insured

    or purchaser;

    (d) Bridges, tunnels, and other instrumentalities of transportation and

    communication, which:

    1. Include:

    a. Bridges, tunnels, and other similar instrumentalities, including

    auxiliary facilities and equipment attendant thereto;

    b. Piers, wharves, docks, slips, dry docks, and marine railways;

    c. Pipelines, including on -line prop ulsion, regulating, and other

    equipment appurtenant to the pipelines, but excluding all property

    at the manufacturing, producing, refining, converting, treating, or

    conditioning plant;

    d. Power transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines, but excluding

    all property at generating, converting, or transforming stations,

    substations, or exchanges;

    e. Radio and television communication equipment in use, as such,

    including towers, antennae with auxiliary equipment, and

    appurtenant electrical operating and control apparatus; and

    f. Outdoor cranes, loading bridges, and similar equipment used to

    load, unload, or transport; and

    2. Exclude buildings, improvements and betterments to buildings, furniture

    and furnishings, fixed contents, and supplies held in storage;

    (e) Personal property floater risks covering an individual, or generally, including:

    1. Personal effects floaters;

    2. Personal property floaters;

    3. Government service floaters;

    4. Personal fur floaters;

    5. Personal jewelry floaters;

    6. Wedding present floaters that do not exceed ninety (90) days after the

    date of the ceremony;

    7. Silverware floaters;

    8. Fine art floaters that cover paintings, etchings, pictures, tapestries, art

    glass windows, and other bona fide works of art that are of rarity,

    historical value, or artistic merit;

    9. Stamp and coin floaters;

    10. a. Musical instrument floaters.

    b. As used in this subparagraph, "musical instrument" does not

    include radios, televisions, record players, or a combination

    thereof;

    11. Mobile article, machinery, and equipment floaters that:

    a. Cover identified property of a mobile or floating nature pertaining

    to or usual to a household; and

    b. Exclude:

    i. Motor vehicles designed for highway use;

    ii. Auto homes, trailers, and semi -trailers, except when hauled

    by a tractor not designed for highway use; and

    iii. Furniture and fixtures not customarily used away from

    premises where the property is usually kept;

    12. a. Installment sales and leased property insurance that:

    i. Covers property pertaining to a household and sold under a

    conditional contract of sale, partial payment contract,

    installment sales contract, or lease; and

    ii. Excludes motor vehicles designed for highway use.

    b. Installment sales and leased property insurance shall cover in

    transit, but shall not extend beyond the termination of the seller's

    or lessor's interest; and

    13. Live animal floaters; and

    (f) Commercial property floater risks that cover property pertaining to a business,

    profession, or occupation, including:

    1. Radium floaters;

    2. Physician's and surgeons' instrument floaters, which may include

    coverage of furniture, fixtures, and a tenant insured's interest in

    improvements and betterments of buildings located in that portion of the

    premises occupied by the insured in the practice of his or her profession;

    3. Pattern and die floaters;

    4. Theatrical floaters that exclude:

    a. Buildings;

    b. Improvements and betterments to buildings; and

    c. Furniture and fixtures that do not travel about with theatrical

    troupes;

    5. Film floaters, including:

    a. Builders' risk during the production; and

    b. Coverage on the completed negatives and positives and sound

    records;

    6. Salesmen's samples floaters;

    7. Exhibition insurance on property while on exhibition and in transit to or

    from an exhibition;

    8. Live animal floaters;

    9. Builders risks or installation risks insurance that:

    a. Covers the interest of an owner, seller, or contractor against loss or

    damage to machinery, equipment, or building materials or supplies

    being used with and during the course of installation, testing,

    building, renovating, or repairing;

    b. May cover:

    i. At points or places where work is being performed;

    ii. While in transit; and

    iii. During temporary storage or deposit of property designated

    for and awaiting specific installation, building, renovating, or

    repairing;

    c. Is limited to builders risks or installation risks where perils in

    addition to fire and extended coverage are to be insured; and

    d. i. If written for an owner, ceases upon completion and

    acceptance thereof; or

    ii. If written for a seller or contractor, terminates when the

    interest of the seller or contractor ceases;

    10. Mobile article, machinery, and equipment floaters that:

    a. Cover identified property of a mobile or floating nature, not on

    sale or consignment, or in the course of manufacture, which has

    come into the custody or control of parties who intend to use the

    property for which it was manufactured or created; and

    b. Exclude:

    i. Motor vehicles designed for highway use;

    ii. Auto homes, tra ilers, and semi -trailers except when hauled

    by a tractor not designed for highway use;

    iii. Snow plows constructed exclusively for highway use; and

    iv. Furniture and fixtures not customarily used away from

    premises where the property is usually kept;

    11. Insurance that:

    a. Covers property:

    i. In transit to, or from and in, the custody of a bailee; and

    ii. That is not owned, controlled, or operated by the bailor; and

    b. Excludes the property of the bailee at his or her premises;

    12. a. Installment sales and leased property insurance that:

    i. Covers property sold under a conditional contract of sale,

    partial payment contract, installment sales contract, or lease;

    and

    ii. Excludes motor vehicles designed for highway use and

    machinery and equipment under a certain "lease -back"

    contract.

    b. Installment sales and leased property insurance shall cover in

    transit, but shall not extend beyond the termination of the seller's

    or lessor's interest;

    13. Garment contractor floaters;

    14. Furriers or fur storer customer insurance:

    a. Under which certificates or receipts are issued by furriers or fur

    storers; and

    b. That covers specified articles of a customer's property;

    15. Accounts receivable insurance;

    16. Valuable papers and records insurance;

    17. Floor plan insurance that:

    a. Covers property for sale while in possession of a dealer under a

    floor plan or any similar plan under which the dealer may borrow

    money from a bank or lending in stitution with which to pay the

    manufacturer, if:

    i. The merchandise is specifically identifiable as encumbered

    to the bank or lending institution;

    ii. The dealer's right to sell or otherwise dispose of the

    merchandise is conditioned upon the merchandise b eing

    released from encumbrance by the bank or lending

    institution; and

    iii. The insurance covers in transit and does not extend beyond

    the termination of the dealer's interest; and

    b. Excludes:

    i. Automobiles or motor vehicles; and

    ii. Merchandise for whic h the dealer's collateral is the stock or

    inventory as distinguished from merchandise specifically

    identifiable as encumbered to the lending institution;

    18. Sign and street clock insurance, which includes coverage for neon signs,

    automatic or mechanical signs, and street clocks, while is use as such;

    19. Fine arts insurance that covers paintings, etchings, pictures, tapestries,

    art glass windows, and other bona fide works of art of rarity, historical

    value, or artistic merit for a museum, gallery, universi ty, business,

    municipality, or other similar interest;

    20. a. Insurance that covers personal property which, when sold to the

    ultimate purchaser, may be covered specifically by the owner

    under an inland marine policy, certificate, or contract, including:

    i. Musical instrument dealers insurance that covers property

    consisting principally of musical instruments and their

    accessories. As used in this subpart, "musical instrument"

    does not include radios, televisions, record players, or a

    combination thereof;

    ii. Camera dealers insurance that covers property consisting

    principally of cameras and their accessories;

    iii. Furrier dealers insurance that covers property consisting

    principally of furs and fur garments;

    iv. Equipment dealers insurance that covers mobil e equipment

    consisting of binders, reapers, tractors, harvesters, harrows,

    tedders, and other similar agricultural equipment and

    accessories and construction equipment consisting of

    bulldozers, road scrapers, tractors, compressors, pneumatic

    tools, and oth er similar equipment and accessories.

    Equipment dealers insurance shall exclude motor vehicles

    designed for highway use;

    v. Stamp and coin dealers insurance that covers property of

    philatelic and numismatic nature;

    vi. Jewelers block insurance; and

    vii. Fine art dealers insurance.

    b. For any insurance referenced in subdivision a. of this

    subparagraph, the insurance may include coverage of:

    i. Money in locked safes or vaults on the insured's premises;

    and

    ii. Furniture, fixtures, tools, machinery, patterns, molds, dies,

    and tenant insureds' interests in building improvements;

    21. Wool growers floaters;

    22. Domestic bulk liquid in surance that covers tanks and domestic bulk

    liquids stored therein;

    23. Difference in condition coverage that excludes fire and extended

    coverage perils; and

    24. Electronic data processing insurance.

    (2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not be construe d to permit coverage under an

    inland marine policy, certificate, or contract for the following, unless the coverage

    is otherwise permitted under that subsection or this chapter:

    (a) Storage of the insured's merchandise;

    (b) Merchandise in the course of man ufacture, including the property of, and on

    the premises of, the manufacturer;

    (c) Furniture and fixtures;

    (d) Improvements and betterments to buildings; or

    (e) Moneys or securities held in safes, vaults, safety deposit vaults, or banks, or

    on the premises of an insured, except while in the course of transportation.

    (3) (a) As used in this chapter, "wet marine and transportation insurance" means

    marine and transportation insurance that may cover or include:

    1. Vessels, crafts, hulls, and of interests therein or with relation thereto;

    2. Marine builders' risks, marine war risks, and contracts of marine

    protection and indemnity insurance;

    3. Freights and disbursements pertaining to a subject of insurance coming

    within this definition; and

    4. Personal property and interests therein, in course of exportation from or

    importation into any country, or in course of transportation coastwise or

    on inland waters, including transportation by land, water, or air from

    point of origin to final destination, in respect to, ap pertaining to, or in

    connection with, any and all risks or perils of navigation, transit, or

    transportation, and while being prepared for and while awaiting

    shipment, and during any delays, storage, transshipment, or reshipment

    incident thereto.

    (b) As used in this subsection, "marine protection and indemnity insurance":

    1. Means insurance against, or against legal liability of the insured for,

    loss, damage, or expense arising out of, or incident to, the ownership,

    operation, chartering, maintenance, use, r epair, or construction of any

    vessel, craft, or instrumentality in use in ocean or inland waterways; and

    2. Includes liability of the insured for personal injury, illness, or death or

    loss of or damage to the property of another person.

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