Table of the States'
Statutory Ocean Marine and Pleasure Craft Exemptions 
   See disclaimer
 

State Rates Forms Cancellation
Non-Renewal cites
AL Ocean marine exempt: §27-13-21 and §27-13-22

Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §27-14-2

No provisions
AK Ocean marine exempt: §21.39.020 Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §21.42.010 No exemption:  §21.36.
210,  §21.36.220,  §21.36.240; personal insurance has more
stringent requirements
AZ Ocean marine exempt: §§20-342(5), 20-382(3) and 20-400(7) Ocean marine and foreign trade insurance exempt: §20-1101 Wet marine exempt:  §20-1671(8);
homeowners' policies covering watercraft
and marine policies
covering the legal liability
of a natural person not exempt:  §20-1651
through  §1656
AR Ocean marine exempt: §23-67-203(4) Wet marine and foreign trade insurance exempt: §23-79-102 No exemption:  §23-66-206(II)(A); See
Ins. Dept. directive, 1/7/
85, announcing guidelines
CA Ocean marine exempt, but pleasure craft 26 ft. or less in length treated as inland marine and rates must be filed: §1851(c); §1036; and Directive 5/9/95 No form filing requirement applicable to ocean marine. Ocean marine exempt:
§675.5
CO No express ocean marine exemptions: §10-4-401 No form filing requirement applicable to ocean marine. (§10-1-114 repealed in 1963.) Provisions not applicable
to wet marine; inland
marine is also exempt: §10-4-109.7 and
§10-4-110
CT Ocean marine exempt: §38a-664(4) Ocean marine exempt: §38a-664(4) Ocean marine exempt from non-renewal requirements: §38a-664(4) and §38a-
323 but not from cancellation requirements (§38a-
324)
DE Ocean marine exempt: 18 §2502(b)(2) Wet marine and foreign trade insurance exempt: Title 18 §2701(3) Wet marine insurance
exempt: §4120
D.C. Ocean marine exempt: § 31- 2702(1) Ocean marine may be exempt as commercial risk: § 31-2714  Marine insurance exempt: §627.4133(1)(a) and (b)
FL Ocean marine exempt, but small boats are treated as inland marine and rates must filed:  §627.021(2)(c) and Rule 4-167-024 Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt:  §627.401(3) Marine insurance exempt: §627.4133(1)(a) and (b);
also applies to yachts and small boats
GA Ocean marine exempt: §33-9-3(a)(4) Ocean marine and foreign trade insurance exempt:  §33-24-2(3) Ocean marine exempt: §33-24-2
HI Ocean marine exempt: §431:14-102(a) and (b)(4) Ocean marine exempt from §431:10-201, 210  Ocean Marine exempt: §431:10-201
ID Ocean marine exempt: §41-1401(3)(b) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §41-1801(3) Ocean marine exempt: §41-1801(3)
IL Ocean marine exempt:  (but director may require submission) Ocean marine policies may be required to be filed when issued or delivered: §215 ILCS 5/143; inland marine not exempt: 50 IAC §2302.20 Ocean marine exempt: §215 ILCS 5/143.11,143.14(a), 143.16, 143.17 and 143.17a; however, policies issued to natural persons not exempt §5/143.13(c)
IN Ocean marine exempt: §27-1-22-2(a)(3) No requirement applicable to ocean marine No exemption: §27-1-31-1
IA Ocean marine exempt from casualty rate regulation: §515F.3 No ocean marine exemption, but manuscript policies exempt §515.109(1) No exemption: §515.83A & §515.81B
KS Certain Inland Marine Exempt.  K.S.A. §40-955, Reg § 40-3-5.  Ocean marine not exempt unless insurance covers “commercial risks, or portions thereof, not rated according to manuals, rating plans, or schedules.” Exempts "non-standardized" marine forms "that cannot practicably be filed before use" KAR §40-3-32 No exemption:§40-2-120, 40-2-121, & Reg. §40-3-15
KY Ocean marine exempt: §304.13-021 Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §304.14-010 No exemption: not included in definition of property and casualty insurance: §304.20-300(2)
LA Ocean marine exempt, but LIRC Bulletin requires insurers writing pleasure boats 26ft. or less in length to file rates: §22:1403 and Bulletin LIRC 95-01 (revised) Ocean marine and foreign trade insurance exempt: §22:611 Ocean marine exempt: §22.611
ME Ocean marine exempt: 24-A §2302(2)(c); inland marine not exempt: 24A §2302(1)(c) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: 24-A §2401 No exemption: §2901; policies insuring yachts or small boats also not exempt: 24-A §3007
MD Ocean marine exempt: but insurers of motor boats up tp 16 ft. in length must file rates (treated as inland marine): §§ 11-202-(b)(2) and 11-303(a)(4) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §12-101.  However, insurance on outboard motorboats must be filed as inland marine. No exemption for ocean marine §27-601
MA Ocean marine exempt: §§174A:4(b) and 175A:4(d) through (f) Most commercial marine policies exempt as business insurance: §175:2B.   However, pleasure craft policies issued to more than 50 policy holders in Massachusetts must comply with form filing requirements. No exemption: §175:187C
MI Ocean marine exempt, but for pleasure craft 24ft. or less in length, rates must be filed §500.2601 Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt, but insurance policies on pleasure craft under 24ft. in length must be filed: §500.2236(8) No requirement for ocean marine; however, pleasurecraft 24 ft. and less in length are subject to provisions: §500.2601 and §500.2236(8)
MN Ocean marine exempt: §70A.02(5) Ocean marine exempt: §70A.02(2)(5) Ocean marine exempt: §60A.35
MS Ocean marine exempt: §83-2-1(1)(b) Ocean marine exempt: §83-2-1(1)(b) Wet marine not exempt: §83-5-28
MO Ocean marine exempt: §379.316(2) No requirement applicable to ocean marine: §375.920 No exemption: §379.883-886; cancellation and non-renewal of policies covering yachts and small boats governed by §375.001 et seq.
MT Ocean marine exempt: §33-16-103(5) Ocean marine and foreign trade insurance exempt: §33-1-501(6) (c) No exemption, but not applicable to policies insuring yachts:   §33-15-1101; however, policies insuring small boats not exempt
NE Ocean marine exempt: §44-5018(2)(b) Ocean marine exempt: §44-5018(2)(b) No exemption: §44-512(2); policies insuring yachts and small boats also not exempt: §44-522(3)
NV Ocean marine exempt: §686B.030(a) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §687B.010(3) Wet marine and transportation exempt:  §687B.010; however, small boat policies are not considered "wet marine" and thus not exempt
NH Ocean marine exempt: §414:2(B) No requirements applicable to ocean marine No exemption for ocean marine insurance: §417-C:2(I) and §402:80
NJ Ocean marine exempt: §§17:29A-25 and 17:29AA-3(1) Ocean marine exempt: §17:29AA-3(1) Ocean marine exempt: Reg. NJAC §11:1-20.1 and -22.1; however, small boat policies not exempt
NM Ocean marine exempt: §59A-17-2(1) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §59A-18-1(C.) Ocean marine exempt: §59A-18-1(C); yacht and small boat policies also exempt: §59A-18-29(F)
NY Ocean marine exempt: §2302(a)(4) and (5) 11 NYCRR 153.6 and 153.1(n) Marine insurance exempt: §3103 (b) 11NYCRR 153.6 and 153.1(n) Ocean marine exempt: §3426(1)(2); see also §1113(a)(20); policies not principally marine, covering small boats, are not exempt
NC Personal Inland Marine Exempt.  §58-41-10 Ocean marine exempt: §58-41-10 and G.S. 58-40-15(3) Ocean marine exempt: §58-41-10 and G.S. 58-40-15(3) Marine insurance exempt: §58-41-10; policies covering yachts, small boats and personal inland marine risks also exempt: §58-41-10(a)
ND Ocean marine exempt: §26.1-25-02(c) No marine exemption: §26.1-30-19 Ocean marine exempt: §26.30.1-01; inland marine is not exempt
OH Ocean marine exempt: §3935.02(B) Ocean marine exempt: §3902.01(A) and §3935.02 No exemption: §3937.25 and
§3937.26
OK Ocean marine exempt: §901(4) Ocean marine and foreign trade insurance: §3601 Ocean marine exempt: 36§
3601 (3)
OR Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §737.035(3) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §742.001 Ocean marine exempt: §742.001
PA Ocean marine exempt: §40 P.S. §1222(b) 30-day file and use statute applies to marine policies: 40 P.S. §477(b)
Policies covering “large commercial risks” exempt, but exemption must be disclosed.  40 P.S. §710-4.
No provisions
RI Ocean marine exempt: §27-6-2(2)(b) and §27-44-3(1)(d) None applicable to ocean marine Ocean marine exempt (requirements apply only to
"specific types of policies," not including ocean marine): Reg. XXXVIII §1
SC Ocean marine exempt: §38-73-20(b)(2; inland marine not exempt No express Ocean Marine exemption, but policies "prepared to meet special, unusual, peculiar, or extraordinary conditions applying to an individual risk" are exempt from form filing: §38-61-20. Marine insurance may not be exempt: §38-75-710, §38-1-
20(28)
SD Ocean marine exempt: §58-24-3(4) No express Ocean Marine exemption, but "unique" risks are exempt from form filing: §58-11-13. Applies to "property insurance" which includes yachts and small boat policies but not other ocean marine: §
58-33-60-61, §58-25-16,
§58-9-5
TN Ocean marine exempt: (§56-5301(4), but private pleasure craft subject to rate filing: §56-5-302(5)(E) Ocean marine exempt, but private pleasure craft subject to form filing: §56-5-302(5)(E) and §56-5-305 Ocean marine and commercially used yachts are exempt from cancellation requirement: §56-7-1802(1)
(A), §56-5-301(4); pleasure watercraft is deemed to be personal risk insurance and has not cancellation requirement: §56-5-302(5)
(E); however, personal yachts and small boats are subject to non-renewal law: §56-7-1901
TX Ocean and inland marine exempt: Art. Art. 5.15, 5.25-5.31, 5.53.  Ocean and inland marine exempt: Art. 5.36 and 5.53 Ocean marine exempt: §5.53; yachts and small boats also exempt: 28 TAC §5.7001
UT Ocean marine exempt: §31A-1-103(3)(b).  Inland marine not written according to manual rules or rating plans exempt: §31A-19-203 Ocean marine exempt: §31-A-1-103(3)(b) §31-A-21-201 Ocean marine exempt: §31A-1-103(3)(b)
VT Ocean marine exempt: T.8 §4682(4) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: T.8 §3301(6) Ocean marine exempt: T.8 §4682(4); however, yacht policies and small boat policies are subject to provisions: T.8 §3880 (a) &T.8 §3301(a)(4)
VA Ocean marine exempt  except for private pleasure craft under 26ft. in length: §38.2-1902 and Admin. Order 9721 Ocean marine other than private pleasure craft exempt; only craft up to 26 ft. in length must file §38.2.317c Ocean marine exempt (not listed): §38.2-231; yacht policies "may be considered exempt;" however, small boat coverage insured through homeowners' policies is subject to provisions: Reg.14VAC §5-340
WA Ocean marine exempt, but by regulation boats under 27ft. in length are deemed inland marine and must file: §48.19.010 and WAC §284-24-080
(32)
Ocean marine generally exempt, but boats under 27 ft. in length are considered inland marine and must file: §48.18.010 and WAC
§284-24-080(32)
Ocean marine exempt: §48.18.010
WV Ocean marine exempt: §33-20-2(b)(3) Ocean marine exempt: §33-17-8(a) and (b) and §33-17-2 No exemption: §33-17A-2(b)
(1); yachts and small boats also not exempt: §33-17A-2
WI Ocean marine exempt: §625.03(1) Inland marine exempt: WAC 4.08, 6.78(2)(a) and 6.785(2)(a) Administrative Code exempts ocean marine insurance:  §6.75(2)(b) No exemption: §631.36
WY Ocean marine exempt: §26-14-102(a)(v) Wet marine and transportation insurance exempt: §26-15-101(a)(iii) No exemption: §26-35-201 to §26-35-204
GUAM Ocean marine policies exempt from rate and form filing when issued by unauthorized insurers §15204. Ocean marine policies exempt from rate and form filing when issued by unauthorized insurers §15204.  

PUERTO

RICO

Ocean marine exempt: §26-1202(e) Ocean marine exempt: §26-1202(e)  
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Ocean marine policies exempt if "unique"  §810.    Ocean marine policies exempt if "unique"  §810.  

 


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