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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72578</law_id><section_number>38.2-4131</section_number><catch_line>Suspension, revocation or refusal of license of foreign or alien society</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="41">Fraternal Benefit Societies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Regulation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No foreign or alien <span class="dictionary">society</span> doing business or applying to do business in this Commonwealth shall:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Exceed its powers; <a id="paragraph-261324" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-4131/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Fail to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter; <a id="paragraph-261325" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-4131/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Fail to fulfill its <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> in good faith; or <a id="paragraph-261326" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-4131/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Conduct its business fraudulently or in a manner hazardous to its members or <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> or the public.
			If the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, upon investigation, finds such deficiencies, it shall notify the <span class="dictionary">society</span> in writing of its <span class="dictionary">findings</span>, and after reasonable notice require the <span class="dictionary">society</span> to show cause on a date designated in the notice why its license should not be suspended, revoked or refused. If, on the date named in the notice, the grounds for the proposed suspension, <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> or refusal of the <span class="dictionary">society</span>&#x2019;s license have not been removed to the satisfaction of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, or the <span class="dictionary">society</span> does not present good and sufficient reasons why its authority to do business in this Commonwealth should not at that time be suspended, revoked, or refused the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may suspend, revoke or refuse the license of the <span class="dictionary">society</span> to do business in this Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-261327" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-4131/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 38-322, 38.1-631; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-638.52; 1968, c. 654; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
