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urn: urn:us-la:rs:33:1359
citation: "R.S. 33:1359"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 33 › Chapter 2 › Part VII › Subpart C"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1981, number: 802, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1983, number: 1, section: 6, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
  - { year: 1999, number: 48, section: 1, effective_date: 1999-05-28, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2004, number: 700, section: 1, effective_date: 2004-07-06, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2005, number: 294, section: 2, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2015, number: 236, section: 1, effective_date: 2015-06-29, role: amendment }
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# Excess insurance

A. An interlocal risk management agency shall maintain at all times a contract or contracts of specific excess insurance of at least one million dollars per occurrence and a contract or contracts of annual aggregate excess insurance of at least five million dollars with respect to general liability claims.

B. The agency shall provide statutory workers' compensation benefits coverage and shall maintain at all times a contract or contracts of specific excess insurance of at least two million dollars per occurrence and a contract or contracts of annual aggregate excess insurance of at least two million dollars.

C. The provisions of this Section regarding excess insurance shall apply only to self-insurance funds.

D. Nothing herein shall be construed to in any way reduce or limit a participating local housing authority member's rights or obligations with respect to his or its employees under the other provisions of this Chapter.

E. The agency shall maintain at all times contracts of excess insurance with respect to property coverage and such other lines of coverage as may be approved by the board of trustees of the interlocal risk management agency in such amounts as determined by the board of trustees of the interlocal risk management agency.

F. Any excess insurance purchased under this Section shall not be subject to the provisions of R.S. 22:1265.