Within 30 days after the effective date of this chapter, with the approval of the commissioner, all insurers licensed to write and engaged in writing in this state, on a direct basis, basic property insurance or any component thereof in multiperil policies, shall establish an industry placement facility, the California FAIR Plan Association, to formulate and administer a program for the equitable apportionment among such insurers of basic property insurance which may be afforded persons having an interest in real or tangible personal property who, after diligent effort (as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 10093), are unable to procure such insurance through normal channels from an admitted insurer or a surplus line broker. Each such insurer, as a condition of its authority to transact such kinds of insurance in this state, shall participate in such industry placement facility program in accordance with rules to be established by a governing committee consisting of nine insurers elected annually in the manner to be provided in the program. The governing committee shall, in addition, have as nonvoting members one representative of insurance agents, one representative of insurance brokers, one representative of surplus line brokers, and one representative of the public, each to be appointed by the Governor. The governing committee may establish separate classifications of written premiums for the purpose of equitable distribution but shall not include premiums from automobile or farm risks. The program may also provide, with the approval of the commissioner, for assessment of all members in amounts sufficient to operate the facility, and may establish maximum limits of liability to be placed through the program, reasonable underwriting standards for determining insurability of a risk, and commission to be paid to the licensed producer designated by the applicant.
(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 415.)