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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="16-213" title_number="16" title_name="Life Insurance and Annuities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Life Insurance Policy Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A policy of life insurance other than a policy of group life insurance may not be delivered or issued for delivery in the State unless the policy has a legible and brief description of the policy on the first page of the policy.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The brief description shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the title or type or plan of policy, including the term “industrial” or “wholesale” if applicable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>how long premiums are to be paid;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>if and when the premium may change, except for a change because of a supplementary agreement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>if the benefit is not level, the use of the term “graded benefit” or a similar term to so indicate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>whether the policy is participating or nonparticipating;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>if the policy is written on a rated underwriting basis, the terms “substandard class” or “rated class” or a substantially similar term; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>if the policy provides for the return of premiums as an additional benefit, the period during which the benefit is applicable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the brief description need not contain the items of information described in subsection (b) of this section, except for the items described in subsection (b)(1) and (5) of this section, if in the opinion of the Commissioner any of those items are:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>already contained in and presented conspicuously in tabular form on the first page of the policy; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>presented conspicuously elsewhere in the policy and referred to in the description on the first page of the policy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
