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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83921</law_id><section_number>38.2-3801</section_number><catch_line>Cooperative nonprofit life benefit company defined</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3800</reference><reference>38.2-5800</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="38">Cooperative Nonprofit Life Benefit Companies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">company</span> that (i) is organized without capital stock, (ii) has a representative form of government, (iii) conducts its business under the provisions of this chapter without profit and for the sole benefit of its members and their beneficiaries, (iv) <span class="dictionary">issues</span> benefit certificates or policies of life <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>, annuities, or accident and sickness <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>, or any combination of those classes of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>, upon its members, and (v) maintains the reserves required in this chapter on all <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> issued by it to its members, shall be a cooperative nonprofit life benefit <span class="dictionary">company</span>. <a id="paragraph-300738" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3801/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> As used in this chapter, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">company</span>&#x201D; means a cooperative nonprofit life benefit <span class="dictionary">company</span> as defined in subsection A of this section. <a id="paragraph-300739" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3801/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-467; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-497; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
