---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 726.201"
title: "20"
number: "726.201"
heading: "Insurance contracts—generally."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/726.201"
---

# §726.201. Insurance contracts—generally.


Each operator of a coal mine who has not obtained authorization as a self-insurer shall purchase a policy or enter into a contract with a commercial insurance carrier or State agency. Pursuant to authority contained in sections [422(a)](/cfr/20/422.md?p=a) and [423(b)](/cfr/20/423.md?p=b) and [(c)](/cfr/20/423.md?p=c) of part C of title IV of the Act, this subpart describes a number of provisions which are required to be incorporated in a policy or contract of insurance obtained by a coal mine operator for the purpose of meeting the responsibility imposed upon such operator by the Act in respect of the total disability or death of miners due to pneumoconiosis.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 30 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 902(f), 925, 932, 933, 934, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015)); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80097, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.