Number
101409
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BOHL
Title
A substitute ordinance amending liability insurance requirements of home improvement contractors.
Sections
95-14-5-a rc
Analysis
Currently, a home improvement contractor's general liability and property damage insurance is not less than $25,000 per person, $50,000 per accident, bodily injury liability, and $10,000 property damage liability. This ordinance adds the provision that a home improvement contractor's general liability and property damage insurance may also have a combined single limit of not less than $60,000 per occurrence.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 95-14-5-a of the code is repealed and recreated to read:
95-14. Home Improvement Contractor and Salesperson Licenses.
5. INSURANCE.
a. Liability and Property Damage.
a-1. The certificate of a contractor's general liability and property damage insurance shall be in the sum of not less than $25,000 per person, $50,000 per accident, bodily injury liability, and $10,000 property damage liability or combined single limit of not less than $60,000 per occurrence.
a-2. The certificate shall provide that the company shall give 10 days' written notice to the city clerk of cancellation, expiration or notice of the company's intent not to renew; otherwise the insurance shall continue in full force and effect.
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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Legislative Reference Bureau
Date:______________________
Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
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Office of the City Attorney
Date:________________________
Requestor
Drafter
LRB125370-2
Amy E. Hefter
3/7/2011