The premiums to be paid by owners of structures, as hereinafter described, are hereby constituted a Coal and Clay Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund, for the purpose of insuring from the moneys in the fund such owners against the damages resulting from subsidence, of coal or clay mines. Such fund shall be administered by a board without liability on the part of the State except as hereinafter provided beyond the amount thereof and shall be applied to the payment of such damages.
52 P.S. § 3204