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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78879</law_id><section_number>38.2-212</section_number><catch_line>Certain compensation not prohibited</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-210</reference><reference>38.2-211</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Provisions of a General Nature</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Nothing contained in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Loans to officers, directors, etc., prohibited" href="/38.2-210/">38.2-210</a> and <a class="law" title="Other interests and payments to officers, directors, etc., prohibited" href="/38.2-211/">38.2-211</a> shall prohibit any officer or director of any <span class="dictionary">company</span> listed in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Loans to officers, directors, etc., prohibited" href="/38.2-210/">38.2-210</a> from receiving usual compensation for services rendered in the ordinary course of his duties as an officer or director, if the compensation is authorized by vote of the board of directors or other governing body of the <span class="dictionary">company</span>. Nor shall the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Loans to officers, directors, etc., prohibited" href="/38.2-210/">38.2-210</a> and <a class="law" title="Other interests and payments to officers, directors, etc., prohibited" href="/38.2-211/">38.2-211</a> prohibit the payment to an officer or director of any such <span class="dictionary">company</span> who is a licensed attorney-at-<span class="dictionary">law</span> of a fee in connection with loans made by the <span class="dictionary">company</span> if and when those fees are paid by the borrower and do not constitute a charge against the <span class="dictionary">company</span>. <a id="paragraph-282531" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-212/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit a life <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> from making a loan upon a policy of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> issued by it and held by the borrower. This loan shall not exceed the net cash value of the policy. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit any <span class="dictionary">company</span> from (i) making a loan on real property owned by the officer and improved with a dwelling that is to serve as his residence if the loan qualifies under subdivision 1 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Mortgage loans" href="/38.2-1434/">38.2-1434</a> and under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Limitations on mortgages" href="/38.2-1437/">38.2-1437</a> or (ii) acquiring the residence of the officer in conformance with subsection D of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Real estate" href="/38.2-1441/">38.2-1441</a> if the transaction is in connection with the relocation of the place of employment of an officer who is neither a director nor a trustee of the <span class="dictionary">company</span>. <a id="paragraph-282532" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-212/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Nothing contained in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Other interests and payments to officers, directors, etc., prohibited" href="/38.2-211/">38.2-211</a> shall prohibit a director of any such <span class="dictionary">company</span> from receiving compensation that is usual and customary in the director&#x2019;s business with respect to transactions in the ordinary course of business of the <span class="dictionary">company</span> and of the director. Prior to payment of the compensation, written request for the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s approval shall be made. This written request shall set forth under <span class="dictionary">oath</span> complete details concerning the transactions that the <span class="dictionary">company</span> intends to conduct with a director. Any approval given by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall be in writing. No approval granted under this subsection shall imply that the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> approves any investment of any <span class="dictionary">company</span>. <a id="paragraph-282533" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-212/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-4.3; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-35; 1977, c. 261; 1978, c. 701; 1981, c. 272; 1983, c. 457; 1986, c. 562; 1992, c. 588.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
