130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document No. 862
H.P. 630 House of Representatives, March 8, 2021
An Act To Protect Consumer Property by Requiring Liability
Insurance for Snowplow Vehicles and Vehicles Used in Landscaping
or Gardening
Reference to the Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services
suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative HEPLER of Woolwich.
Cosponsored by Senator SANBORN of Cumberland and
Representatives: ARFORD of Brunswick, BROOKS of Lewiston.
Printed on recycled paper
 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2 Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §1611, sub-§2, ¶G is enacted to read:
3 G. For for-hire snowplow vehicles and vehicles used by landscaping or gardening
4 companies:
5 (1) There is a combined single limit of $125,000; or
6 (2) There is a split limit of $50,000 per person or $100,000 per occurrence for
7 bodily injury liability and $25,000 for property damage liability.
8 These vehicles must be covered by commercial policies.
9 SUMMARY
10 This bill adds for-hire snowplow vehicles and vehicles used by landscaping or
11 gardening companies to the provision of law requiring a minimum amount of insurance. It
12 requires the vehicles to be covered by commercial policies with a combined single limit of
13 $125,000 or a split limit of $50,000 per person or $100,000 per occurrence for bodily injury
14 liability and $25,000 for property damage liability.
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