Section 1600.102 - PurposesThe purposes of this act are:
(1) To encourage stability in the property insurance market for property located in urban areas of this Commonwealth;(2) To encourage maximum use, in obtaining basic property insurance, as defined in this act, of the normal insurance market provided by the private property insurance industry;(3) To encourage the improvement of the condition of properties located in urban areas of this Commonwealth and to further orderly Community development generally;(4) To provide for the formulation and administration by an Industry Placement Facility of a plan assuring fair access to insurance requirements (Fair Plan) in order that no property shall be denied basic property insurance through the normal insurance market provided by the private property insurance industry except after a physical inspection of such property and a fair evaluation of its individual underwriting characteristics;(5) To publicize the purposes and procedures of the Fair Plan to the end that no one may fail to seek its assistance through ignorance thereof;(6) To provide for the formulation and administration by the Industry Placement Facility of a reinsurance arrangement whereby property insurers shall share equitably the responsibility for insuring insurable property for which basic property insurance cannot be obtained through the normal insurance market; and(7) To provide a framework for participation by the Commonwealth in a sharing of insured losses resulting from riots and other civil disorders occurring in this Commonwealth through the formation of a Pennsylvania Civil Disorder Authority, in order that insurance companies doing business within this Commonwealth may qualify for Federal reinsurance of such losses if Federal legislation providing for such reinsurance is enacted.1968, July 31, P.L. 738, No. 233, art. I, § 102.