Tex. Ins. Code § 252.003 · Chapter 252. FIRE AND ALLIED LINES INSURANCE
PREMIUMS SUBJECT TO TAXATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An insurer shall pay maintenance taxes under this chapter on the correctly reported gross premiums from writing insurance in this state against loss or damage by:
(1) bombardment;
(2) civil war or commotion;
(3) cyclone;
(4) earthquake;
(5) excess or deficiency of moisture;
(6) explosion as defined by Section 2002.006(b);
(7) fire;
(8) flood;
(9) frost and freeze;
(10) hail, including loss by hail on farm crops;
(11) insurrection;
(12) invasion;
(13) lightning;
(14) military or usurped power;
(15) an order of a civil authority made to prevent the spread of a conflagration, epidemic, or catastrophe;
(16) rain;
(17) riot;
(18) the rising of the waters of the ocean or its tributaries;
(19) smoke or smudge;
(20) strike or lockout;
(21) tornado;
(22) vandalism or malicious mischief;
(23) volcanic eruption;
(24) water or other fluid or substance resulting from the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, pumps, or other apparatus erected for extinguishing fires, water pipes, or other conduits or containers;
(25) weather or climatic conditions;
(26) windstorm;
(27) an event covered under a home warranty insurance policy; or
(28) an event covered under an inland marine insurance policy.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 730 (H.B. 2636), Sec. 2C.002, eff. April 1, 2009.
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 932 (H.B. 3315), Sec. 12, eff. June 15, 2007.
Reenacted by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 14.009, eff. September 1, 2009.
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