Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 103 — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
§ 9671. Definitions
Statutory text
As used in this subchapter—
Insurance
The term “insurance” means primary insurance, excess insurance, reinsurance, surplus lines insurance, and any other arrangement for shifting and distributing risk which is determined to be insurance under applicable State or Federal law.
Pollution liability
The term “pollution liability” means liability for injuries arising from the release of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants.
Risk retention group
The term “risk retention group” means any corporation or other limited liability association taxable as a corporation, or as an insurance company, formed under the laws of any State—
whose primary activity consists of assuming and spreading all, or any portion, of the pollution liability of its group members;
which is organized for the primary purpose of conducting the activity described under subparagraph (A);
which is chartered or licensed as an insurance company and authorized to engage in the business of insurance under the laws of any State; and
which does not exclude any person from membership in the group solely to provide for members of such a group a competitive advantage over such a person.
Purchasing group
The term “purchasing group” means any group of persons which has as one of its purposes the purchase of pollution liability insurance on a group basis.
State
The term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and any other territory or possession over which the United States has jurisdiction.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
Pub. L. 96–510 title IV § 401 · 94 Stat. 2767
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 9671
Pub. L. 96–510, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 99–499, title II, § 210(a), formerly § 210, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1716
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 96–510, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 99–499, title II, § 210(a), formerly § 210, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1716
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
State Powers and Authorities Under Risk Retention Amendments of 1986
Pub. L. 99–499, title II, § 210(b), as added by Pub. L. 99–563, § 11(c)(1), , 100 Stat. 3177, provided that: “For purposes of subsection (a) of this section [enacting this subchapter], the powers and authorities of States addressed by the Risk Retention Amendments of 1986 [Pub. L. 99–563, see Short Title of 1986 Amendment note set out under section 3901 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade] are in addition to those of this Act [see Short Title of 1986 Amendment note set out under section 9601 of this title].”
Credits
1986 · 2 acts
- 1986Pub. L. 96–510, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 99–499, title II, § 210(a), formerly § 210, , 100 Stat. 1716
- 1986renumbered § 210(a), Pub. L. 99–563, § 11(c)(1), , 100 Stat. 3177.
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(Pub. L. 96–510, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 99–499, title II, § 210(a), formerly § 210, , 100 Stat. 1716; renumbered § 210(a), Pub. L. 99–563, § 11(c)(1), , 100 Stat. 3177.)