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However, any such provision may appear as a unit in any part of the policy, with other provisions to which it may be logically related, provided the resulting policy shall not be in whole or in part unintelligible, uncertain, ambiguous, abstruse, or likely to mislead a person to whom the policy is offered, delivered or issued.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":259464,"text":"The provisions that are the subject of \u00a7\u00a7 38.2-3503 and 38.2-3504, or any corresponding provisions that are used instead of them in accordance with these sections, shall be printed in the consecutive order of the provisions in such sections. However, any such provision may appear as a unit in any part of the policy, with other provisions to which it may be logically related, provided the resulting policy shall not be in whole or in part unintelligible, uncertain, ambiguous, abstruse, or likely to mislead a person to whom the policy is offered, delivered or issued.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":13349,"edition_id":1,"name":"Individual Accident and Sickness Insurance Policies","identifier":"1","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13348,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:41","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:41","permalink":{"id":215643,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13349,"identifier":"1","token":"38.2\/35\/1","url":"\/38.2\/35\/1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13348,"edition_id":1,"name":"Accident and Sickness Insurance Policies","identifier":"35","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12698,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:41","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:41","permalink":{"id":215641,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13348,"identifier":"35","token":"38.2\/35","url":"\/38.2\/35\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12698,"edition_id":1,"name":"Insurance","identifier":"38.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:49","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:49","permalink":{"id":210661,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12698,"identifier":"38.2","token":"38.2","url":"\/38.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":81706,"structure_id":13349,"section_number":"38.2-3500","catch_line":"Form of policy","url":"\/38.2-3500\/","token":"38.2\/35\/1\/38.2-3500","metadata":false},{"id":54330,"structure_id":13349,"section_number":"38.2-3501","catch_line":"Policy forms; 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 317 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1952 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1986, chapter 562.<\/p>","references":[{"id":65279,"section_number":"38.2-3404","catch_line":"Commission may establish rules and regulations for simplified and readable accident and sickness insurance policies","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3404\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":67765,"section_number":"38.2-3503","catch_line":"Required accident and sickness policy provisions","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3503\/"},{"id":83509,"section_number":"38.2-3504","catch_line":"Other provisions","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3504\/"}],"permalink":{"id":215669,"object_type":"law","relational_id":72012,"identifier":"38.2-3506","token":"38.2\/35\/1\/38.2-3506","url":"\/38.2-3506\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/38.2-3506\/","token":"38.2\/35\/1\/38.2-3506","dublin_core":{"Title":"Order of certain policy provisions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 38.2-3506","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The provisions that are the subject of \u00a7\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Required accident and sickness policy provisions\" href=\"\/38.2-3503\/\">38.2-3503<\/a> and <a class=\"law\" title=\"Other provisions\" href=\"\/38.2-3504\/\">38.2-3504<\/a>, or any corresponding provisions that are used instead of them in accordance with these sections, shall be printed in the consecutive <span class=\"dictionary\">order<\/span> of the provisions in such sections. However, any such provision may appear as a unit in any part of the policy, with other provisions to which it may be logically related, provided the resulting policy shall not be in whole or in part unintelligible, uncertain, ambiguous, abstruse, or likely to mislead a <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> to whom the policy is offered, delivered or issued.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nORDER OF CERTAIN POLICY PROVISIONS (\u00a7 38.2-3506)\n\nThe provisions that are the subject of \u00a7\u00a7 38.2-3503 and 38.2-3504, or any\ncorresponding provisions that are used instead of them in accordance with these\nsections, shall be printed in the consecutive order of the provisions in such\nsections. However, any such provision may appear as a unit in any part of the\npolicy, with other provisions to which it may be logically related, provided the\nresulting policy shall not be in whole or in part unintelligible, uncertain,\nambiguous, abstruse, or likely to mislead a person to whom the policy is\noffered, delivered or issued.\n\nHISTORY: 1952, c. 317, \u00a7 38.1-352; 1986, c. 562.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}