A society may grant nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and other options as its laws may permit.
In the case of certificates issued after September 21, 1952, other than those for which reserves are computed on the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the 1941 Standard Industrial Table, the Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, or any more recent table approved by the commissioner that applies to life insurers, the value of any nonforfeiture benefit granted and the amount of any cash surrender value granted shall not be less than the excess, if any, of (a) over (b) as follows:
(a) The reserve under the certificate determined on the basis specified in the certificate; and
(b) The sum of any indebtedness to the society on the certificate, including interest due and accrued, and a surrender charge of not more than 21/2 percent of the face amount of the certificate, which, in the case of insurance on the lives of children, shall be the ultimate face amount of the certificate, if death benefits provided therein are graded.
However, in the case of certificates issued on a substandard basis or in the case of certificates, the reserves for which are computed upon the American Men Ultimate Table of Mortality, the term of any extended insurance benefit including accompanying pure endowment, if any, may be computed upon the rates of mortality not greater than 130 percent of those shown by the mortality table specified in the certificate for the computation of the reserve.
In the case of certificates issued after September 21, 1952, for which reserves are computed on the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the 1941 Standard Industrial Table, the Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, or any more recent table approved by the commissioner that applies to life insurers, the value of any nonforfeiture benefit granted and the amount of any cash surrender value granted shall not be less than the corresponding amount ascertained in accordance with the provisions of Sections 10161, 10162, 10163, 10163.1, 10163.2, 10164, 10164.1, and 10165 applicable to life insurance companies.
(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 166, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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