Tex. Insurance Code § 885.352
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 885.352, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 885.352. EXCEPTION.
Official statutory text
(a) Section 885.351(b) does not apply to an agent, representative, or member of a fraternal benefit society who devotes less than 50 percent of the person's time to the solicitation and procurement of benefit contracts for that society.
(b) For purposes of this section, a person is presumed for a calendar year to have devoted at least 50 percent of the person's time to the solicitation or procurement of benefit contracts if, in the preceding calendar year, the person solicited or procured on behalf of a fraternal benefit society:
(1) life insurance contracts that have generated, in the aggregate, more than $20,000 of direct premiums for all lives insured;
(2) benefit contracts other than life insurance contracts that have insured the individual lives of more than 25 persons; or
(3) variable life insurance or variable annuity contracts.
(c) A person to whom this section applies may not solicit or procure on behalf of a fraternal benefit society an interest-sensitive life insurance contract that exceeds $35,000 of coverage on an individual life unless the person holds the designation of fraternal insurance counselor.
(b) For purposes of this section, a person is presumed for a calendar year to have devoted at least 50 percent of the person's time to the solicitation or procurement of benefit contracts if, in the preceding calendar year, the person solicited or procured on behalf of a fraternal benefit society:
(1) life insurance contracts that have generated, in the aggregate, more than $20,000 of direct premiums for all lives insured;
(2) benefit contracts other than life insurance contracts that have insured the individual lives of more than 25 persons; or
(3) variable life insurance or variable annuity contracts.
(c) A person to whom this section applies may not solicit or procure on behalf of a fraternal benefit society an interest-sensitive life insurance contract that exceeds $35,000 of coverage on an individual life unless the person holds the designation of fraternal insurance counselor.
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