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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81892</law_id><section_number>38.2-226</section_number><catch_line>Provisions of title not to apply to certain mutual aid associations</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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><p>This title shall not apply to beneficial, relief, or mutual aid societies, or partnerships, plans, associations, or corporations, established prior to 1935 and formed by churches for the purpose of aiding members who <span class="dictionary">sustain</span> property losses by fire, lightning, hail, storm, flood, explosion, power failure, theft, <span class="dictionary">burglary</span>, vandalism, civil commotion, airplane and vehicular damage, and in which the <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> and memberships in these societies, partnerships, plans, associations, or corporations are confined to members of the churches.</p></section></text><history>1981, c. 171, &#xA7; 38.1-42.1; 1985, c. 361; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
