58-15-41. Nonforfeiture benefit provision inapplicable to reinsurance, group insurance, annuity contracts, or term insurance.
The provisions of §§58-15-31 to 58-15-43, inclusive, do not apply to any reinsurance; group insurance; pure endowment; annuity or reversionary annuity contract; term policy of uniform amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof, of twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy; term policy of decreasing amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, on which each adjusted premium, calculated as specified in §§58-15-35 to 58-15-38, inclusive, and §§58-15-43.1 to 58-15-43.11, inclusive, 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 twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy; 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 §§58-15-33 to 58-15-38, inclusive, and §§58-15-43.1 to 58-15-43.11, inclusive, exceeds two and one- half percent of the amount of insurance at the beginning of the same policy year; nor policy which is delivered outside this state through an insurance producer or other representative of the company issuing the policy. For purposes of determining the applicability of §§58-15-31 to 58-15-43, inclusive, the age at expiry for a joint term life insurance policy is the age at expiry of the oldest life.
Source: SL 1966, ch 111, ch 23, §28 (7); SL 1982, ch 357, §19; SL 2001, ch 286, §108.