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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="16-509" title_number="16" title_name="Life Insurance and Annuities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Any paid-up annuity, cash surrender, or death benefits available at any time other than on a contract anniversary under an annuity contract with fixed scheduled considerations shall be calculated with an allowance for the lapse of time and the payment of any scheduled considerations after the start of the contract year in which payment of considerations stops.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to an annuity contract that provides by rider or supplemental contract provision both annuity benefits and life insurance benefits that exceed the greater of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the cash surrender benefits; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a return of the gross considerations with interest.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The minimum nonforfeiture benefits shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>be calculated separately as if the annuity benefits and life insurance benefits were provided under separate contracts; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>equal the sum of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the minimum nonforfeiture benefits for the annuity part of the contract; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the minimum nonforfeiture benefits for the life insurance part of the contract.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Notwithstanding this section and §§ 16-505 through 16-508 of this subtitle, the following supplemental benefits and considerations for the benefits shall be disregarded when calculating the minimum nonforfeiture amounts, paid-up annuity, cash surrender, and death benefits required under this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>benefits payable for total and permanent disability;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>benefits payable as reversionary annuity or deferred reversionary annuity benefits; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>other policy benefits additional to life insurance, endowment, and annuity benefits.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Additional benefits under subsection (c) of this section need not be included in any paid-up benefits unless the additional benefits separately would require minimum nonforfeiture amounts, paid-up annuity, cash surrender, and death benefits.</text>
  </level>
</section>
