Section 27-13-21

Applicability of article - Generally.

The provisions of this article shall apply to insurance against loss to property located in this state, or to any valuable interest therein, by fire, lightning, windstorm, explosion or by theft or physical damage to motor vehicles and all other kinds of insurance which fire insurance companies are authorized to write in this state, except this article shall not apply to reinsurance, aviation insurance and marine insurance, which term shall mean, and include, insurance and reinsurance against any, and all, kinds of loss or damage to the following subject matters of insurance and interests therein:

(1) Hulls, vessels and craft of every kind;

(2) Aids to navigation;

(3) Dry docks and marine railways, including marine builders' and repairers' risks, and whether complete or in process of, or awaiting, construction;

(4) All marine protection and indemnity risks; and

(5) All goods, freights, cargoes, merchandise, effects, disbursements, profits, moneys, bullion, precious stones, securities, choses in action, evidences of debt, valuable papers, bottomry and respondentia interest and all other kinds of property and interests therein, in respect to, appertaining to or in connection with any and all risks or perils of navigation, transit or transportation on or under any seas, lakes, rivers or other waters, or in the air or on land in connection with, or incident to, export, import or waterborne risks, or while being assembled, packed, crated, baled, compressed or similarly prepared for such shipment, or while awaiting the same, or during any delays, storage, transshipment or reshipment incident thereto, including the insurance of war risks in respect to any or all of the aforesaid subject matters of insurance.

The provisions of this article shall, however, apply to inland marine insurance in the manner provided in Section 27-13-22.

(Acts 1945, No. 132, p. 133, §2; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §258.)