59. The Régie may, by regulation, whenever it considers that it has the necessary data, allow the producers of one or more categories of commercial crops, in one or more zones or parts of one or more zones that it determines, to insure, under an individual plan or a collective plan, against the loss in yield of their commercial crops or against both such loss in yield and a reduction in quality due to the harmful effect, while the insurance is in force, of the forces of nature mentioned and defined in the regulations. The Régie may also, by regulation and subject to the provisions which follow, fix the conditions of participation of the producers who wish to insure.
The forces of nature to which such insurance may apply are, in addition to those contemplated in section 24, excessive wind, excessive humidity and excessive heat.
1974, c. 31, s. 59; 1979, c. 73, s. 9.