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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85497</law_id><section_number>38.2-3213</section_number><catch_line>Same; exemptions from application of certain sections</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3202</reference><reference>38.2-3209</reference><reference>38.2-3210</reference><reference>38.2-3214</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="32">Standard Nonforfeiture Provisions for Life Insurance</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Sections <a class="law" title="Standard nonforfeiture law; required policy provisions" href="/38.2-3202/">38.2-3202</a> through <a class="law" title="Same; policies issued on or after January 1, 1986" href="/38.2-3212/">38.2-3212</a> shall not apply to any: <a id="paragraph-306290" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Certificates of fraternal benefit societies; <a id="paragraph-306291" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Reinsurance; <a id="paragraph-306292" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Group <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>; <a id="paragraph-306293" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Pure endowments; <a id="paragraph-306294" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Annuities or reversionary annuity <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>; <a id="paragraph-306295" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Term policies of uniform amount (i) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof; (ii) that are of twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one; and (iii) for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy; <a id="paragraph-306296" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> Term policies of decreasing amount (i) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits; (ii) on which each adjusted premium calculated as specified in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Same; calculation of adjusted premiums" href="/38.2-3205/">38.2-3205</a> through <a class="law" title="Same; adjusted premiums for policies" href="/38.2-3209/">38.2-3209</a> is less than the adjusted premium calculated on term policies of uniform amount, or renewal thereof; (iii) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits; (iv) that are issued at the same age and for the same initial amounts of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> and for terms of twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one; and (v) for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy; <a id="paragraph-306297" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> Policies (i) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits and (ii) for which any cash surrender value or present value of any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit at the beginning of any policy year, calculated as specified in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Same; cash surrender value in case of default" href="/38.2-3203/">38.2-3203</a> through <a class="law" title="Same; adjusted premiums for policies" href="/38.2-3209/">38.2-3209</a>, does not exceed 2 1/2% of the amount of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> at the beginning of the same policy year; or <a id="paragraph-306298" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A9" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> Policies delivered outside this Commonwealth through an agent or other representative of the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> issuing the policy. <a id="paragraph-306299" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#A9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> For purposes of determining the applicability of &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Standard nonforfeiture law; required policy provisions" href="/38.2-3202/">38.2-3202</a> through <a class="law" title="Same; operative date for &#xA7; 38.2-3208" href="/38.2-3216/">38.2-3216</a>, the age at expiry for a joint term life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> policy shall be the age at expiry of the oldest life. <a id="paragraph-306300" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3213/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-382; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-467; 1962, c. 562; 1982, c. 228; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
