West Virginia Code § 33-23-19

Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, loans and options
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(a) A society may grant paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate
loans and such other options as its laws may permit. As to certificates issued on and after
the effective date of this article, a society shall grant at least one paid-up nonforfeiture
benefit.
(b) In the case of certificates other than those for which reserves are computed on the
Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table or the 1941 Standard Industrial
Table, or any more recent table made applicable to life insurance companies and duly
approved by the commissioner, the value of every paid-up nonforufeiture benefit and the
amount of any cash surrender value, loan or other option granted shall not be less than the
excess, if any, of (1) over (2) as follows: t
(1) The reserve under the certificate determined on the basis specified in the certificate; and
(2) The sum of any indebtedness to the society on tlhe certificate, including interest due and
accrued, and a surrender charge equal to twos and one-half 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 benefitsi provided therein are graded.
(c) 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 granted including accompanying pure
endowment, if any, may be computed upon the rates of mortality not greater than one
hundred thirty percent of those shown by the mortality table specified in the certificate for
the computation of the reserve.
(d) In the caseV of certificates for which reserves are computed on the Commissioners 1941
Standard Ordinary Mortality Table or the 1941 Standard Industrial Table, or any more
recent table made applicable to life insurance companies and duly approved by the
commissioner, every paid-up nonforfeiture benefit and the amount of any cash surrender
value, loan or other option granted shall not be less than the corresponding amount
ascertained in accordance with the provisions of the laws of this state applicable to life
insurance companies issuing policies containing like insurance benefits based upon such
tables.

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