§ 3749 - Application of subchapter - Vermont Statutes

§ 3749. Application of subchapter

(a) This subchapter shall not apply to any of the following:

(1) reinsurance;

(2) group insurance;

(3) pure endowment;

(4) annuity or reversionary annuity contract;

(5) term policy of uniform amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof, of 20 years or less expiring before age 71, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;

(6) term policy of decreasing amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, on which each adjusted premium, calculated as specified in sections 3745-3747a of this title is less than the adjusted premium so calculated, on a term policy of uniform amount, or renewal thereof, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, issued at the same age and for the same initial amount of insurance and for a term of 20 years or less expiring before age 71, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;

(7) a policy, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, for which no cash surrender value, if any, or present value of any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, at the beginning of any policy year, calculated as specified in sections 3743-3747a of this title, exceeds two and one-half percent of the amount of insurance at the beginning of the same policy year; nor

(8) a policy which shall be delivered outside this state through an agent or other representative of the company issuing the policy, nor to fraternal beneficiary orders or associations, except as provided for elsewhere in this title.

(b) For purposes of determining the applicability of this act, the age of expiry for a joint term life insurance policy shall be the age at expiry of the oldest life. (1967, No. 344 (Adj. Sess.), § 1 (ch. 2, subch. 4, § 9); amended 1983, No. 55, § 10; 1985, No. 111 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 8, 1986.)