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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86454</law_id><section_number>38.2-3316</section_number><catch_line>Provisions prohibited</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="33">Life Insurance Policies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Life Insurance Policies; Annuities</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No individual life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> policy shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this Commonwealth if it contains any provision:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Limiting the time within which any action at <span class="dictionary">law</span> or in <span class="dictionary">equity</span> may be commenced to less than one year after the <span class="dictionary">cause of action</span> accrues; <a id="paragraph-309659" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3316/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> For any mode of <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> at maturity, of less value than the amount insured on the face of the policy plus any dividend additions, less any indebtedness to the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> on or secured by the policy, and less any premium or portion of any premium, that may by the terms of the policy be deducted. This paragraph shall not apply to any nonforfeiture provision that employs the cash value less any indebtedness to purchase paid-up or extended <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>, and shall not prohibit the issuance of policies providing for a limitation in the amount payable under certain specified conditions; <a id="paragraph-309660" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3316/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> For forfeiture of the policy for failure to repay any loan on the policy, or to pay interest on any policy loan, while the total indebtedness on the policy, including interest, is less than the loan value of the policy; or <a id="paragraph-309661" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3316/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> To the effect that the agent soliciting the <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> is the agent of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> insured under the policy, or making the acts or representations of the agent binding upon the <span class="dictionary">person</span> insured under the policy. <a id="paragraph-309662" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3316/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-386; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-406; 1956, c. 417; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
