§343.  Annual report of premiums received; verified statements by municipality, district, or volunteer fire department

Every foreign or alien insurer, other than life, desiring to engage in or carry on business in this state shall return to the state treasurer a just and true account, verified by oath of the proper officer, of all premiums received from business in this state which insures property of any nature or description against loss or damage by fire, during the year ending December thirty-first of each year.  Any incorporated municipality or any fire or waterworks district in any unincorporated municipality as may be established by ordinance of the governing authority of any parish of this state having or that may have a regularly paid fire department, as defined in R.S. 22:342, under the control of the mayor or council or other governing authority, and on any property of an area actually served by an active volunteer fire department, as defined in R.S. 22:342, shall be eligible to participate upon certification.  Such returns must be made by the said companies within sixty days after December thirty-first of each year, provided that the mayor and council or regularly constituted authority of the incorporated municipality or the governing authority of the fire and waterworks district in any unincorporated municipality or the fire chief of the active volunteer fire department, as defined in R.S. 22:342, shall file a verified statement as required by the governing authority of the parish on or before October first of each year.  Provided that whenever any incorporated municipality or fire or waterworks district of any unincorporated municipality or active volunteer fire department is qualified as required by this Section for the first time, the treasurer of the governing authority of the parish shall have qualified or certified such body as being eligible to receive the tax.  This statement must show that the incorporated municipality or the fire or waterworks district in any unincorporated municipality has a regularly paid fire department, as defined in R.S. 22:342, and that it possesses fire duty apparatus and equipment in serviceable condition having a total value of five thousand dollars or more; and in the case of a volunteer fire department this statement must show that such volunteer fire department is an active volunteer fire department as defined in R.S. 22:342, and that it possesses fire duty apparatus and equipment in serviceable condition having a total value of five thousand dollars or more.  If any such incorporated municipality or any fire and waterworks district in any unincorporated municipality or active volunteer fire department fails to file a certified statement by the time herein prescribed, the verified statement may be filed at any time subsequent within one year from the time established herein, provided a like statement is filed with the Property Insurance Association of Louisiana.  Provided, the statement to be furnished by an active volunteer fire department to the treasurer of the governing authority of the parish on or before October first of each year or the verified statement filed within one year subsequent thereto shall contain a map or survey of the area actually served by the active volunteer fire department prepared by a registered surveyor or licensed civil engineer.  If an active volunteer fire department is located within an incorporated municipality or fire and waterworks district only the incorporated municipality or the fire and waterworks district shall file a verified statement as provided for herein.

Acts 1958, No. 125.  Amended by Acts 1958, No. 417, §1; Acts 1976, No. 218, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1977; Redesignated from R.S. 22:1581 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.

NOTE:  Former R.S. 22:343 redesignated as R.S. 22:203 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.