The commissioner, in adopting fire insurance rates for a municipality at or near the border between this state and another state or the United Mexican States, shall take into account the existence and capabilities of a fire department or volunteer fire department that serves an adjoining or nearby municipality in the other state or the United Mexican States and that by agreement or by long-standing practice provides fire suppression services to the Texas municipality.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1413, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 6, eff. April 1, 2007.