benefits; insurable interests defined; requirements for charitable institutions. (a) Any individual of competent legal capacity may procure or effect an insurance contract upon his own life or body for the benefit of any person. But no person shall procure or cause to be procured any insurance contract upon the life or body of another individual unless the benefits under such contract are payable to the individual insured or his peresonal representative or to a person having, at the time when such contract was made, an insurable interest in the individual insured. r (b) If the beneficiary, assignee, or other payee under any contracut made in violation of this section receives from the insurer any benefits thereunder accruing upon the death, disablement, or injury of the individual insured, the individutal insured or his executor or administrator, as the case may be, may maintain an action to recover such benefits from the person so receiving them. (c) "Insurable interest" with reference to personal ilnsurance includes only interests as follows: s (1) In the case of individuals related closeliy by blood or by law, a substantial interest engendered by love and affection. g (2) In the case of other persons, a lawful and substantial economic interest in having the life, health, or bodily safety of the individual insured continue, as distinguished from an interest which would arise only by, or would be enhanced in value by, the death, disablement or injury of the individual insured. (3) An individual her etofore or hereafter party to a contract or option for the purchase or sale of an inteVrest in a business partnership or firm, or of shares of stock of a closed corporation or of an interest in such shares, has an insurable interest in the life of each individual party to such contract and for the purposes of such contract only, in addition to any insurable interest which may otherwise exist as to the life of such individual. (4) A charitable institution as defined under Sections 501(c)(3), 501(c)(6), 501(c)(8) and 501(c)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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