601.93 Payment of dues. - Wisconsin Statutes

601.93

SUBCHAPTER VI
FIRE DEPARTMENT DUES
601.93 Payment of dues.

601.93(1g)

(1g) In this section, "fire insurance" includes insurance against loss of or damage to:

601.93(1g)(a)

(a) Notes, acceptances or any other valuable papers or documents, resulting from any cause, except while in the mail or in the custody or possession of and being transported by any carrier for hire; and

601.93(1g)(b)

(b) Personal property of individuals when written under an all-risk type of policy commonly known as the "personal property floater", whenever these risks are written in conjunction with insurance against burglary or theft.

601.93(1m)

(1m) Any insurer doing a fire insurance business in this state shall pay fire department dues equal to 2% of the amount of all premiums which, during the preceding calendar year, have been received by, or have been agreed to be paid to, the company for insurance against loss by fire, including insurance on property exempt from taxation.

601.93(2)

(2) Every insurer doing a fire insurance business in this state shall, before March 1 in each year, file with the commissioner a statement, showing the amount of premiums upon fire insurance due for the preceding calendar year. Return premiums may be deducted in determining the premium on which the fire department dues are computed. Payments of quarterly installments of the total estimated payment for the then current calendar year under this subsection are due on or before April 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15. On March 1 the insurer shall pay any additional amounts due for the preceding calendar year. Overpayments will be credited on the amount due April 15. The commissioner shall, prior to May 1 each year, report to the department of commerce the amount of dues paid under this subsection and to be paid under s. 101.573 (1).

601.93 - ANNOT.

History: 1971 c. 154; 1975 c. 372 ss. 5, 38; 1975 c. 421; Stats. 1975 s. 601.93; 1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 34, 102, 177, 221; 1981 c. 20; 1987 a. 166; 1995 a. 27 ss. 7019, 9130 (4); 2001 a. 103.