Mont. Code Ann. § 33-1-227
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33-1-227 Personal property
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33-1-227 . Personal property. Risks generally covered by personal property floaters covering individuals or items of personal property may be covered by marine, inland marine, and transportation policies. This category includes:
(1) personal effects floater policies;
(2) personal property floaters;
(3) government service floaters;
(4) personal fur floaters;
(5) personal jewelry floaters;
(6) wedding present floaters for a period not exceeding 90 days after the date of the wedding;
(7) silverware floaters;
(8) fine arts floaters covering paintings, etchings, pictures, tapestries, art glass windows, and other bona fide works of art of rarity, historical value, or artistic merit;
(9) stamp and coin floaters;
(10) musical instrument floaters. For purposes of this section, radios, televisions, record players, and combinations thereof are not musical instruments.
(11) mobile articles, machinery, and equipment floaters (excluding motor vehicles designed for highway use and motor homes, trailers, and semitrailers except when hauled by tractors not designed for highway use) covering identified property of a mobile or floating nature pertaining to or usual to a household. Such policies shall not cover furniture and fixtures not customarily used away from premises where such property is usually kept.
(12) installment sales and leased property policies covering property pertaining to a household and sold under conditional contract of sale, partial payment contract, or installment sales contract or leased but excluding motor vehicles designed for highway use. Such policies must cover property in transit but shall not extend beyond the termination of the seller's or lessor's interest; and
(13) live animal floaters.
(1) personal effects floater policies;
(2) personal property floaters;
(3) government service floaters;
(4) personal fur floaters;
(5) personal jewelry floaters;
(6) wedding present floaters for a period not exceeding 90 days after the date of the wedding;
(7) silverware floaters;
(8) fine arts floaters covering paintings, etchings, pictures, tapestries, art glass windows, and other bona fide works of art of rarity, historical value, or artistic merit;
(9) stamp and coin floaters;
(10) musical instrument floaters. For purposes of this section, radios, televisions, record players, and combinations thereof are not musical instruments.
(11) mobile articles, machinery, and equipment floaters (excluding motor vehicles designed for highway use and motor homes, trailers, and semitrailers except when hauled by tractors not designed for highway use) covering identified property of a mobile or floating nature pertaining to or usual to a household. Such policies shall not cover furniture and fixtures not customarily used away from premises where such property is usually kept.
(12) installment sales and leased property policies covering property pertaining to a household and sold under conditional contract of sale, partial payment contract, or installment sales contract or leased but excluding motor vehicles designed for highway use. Such policies must cover property in transit but shall not extend beyond the termination of the seller's or lessor's interest; and
(13) live animal floaters.
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