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CHAPTER 237 AN ACT INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF INSURANCE ON DEBTORS OF A BANK, ASSOCIATION, FINANCIAL OR OTHER INSTITUTION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 133 of chapter 175 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out clause (c) and inserting in place thereof the following clause:-

(c) a group of persons who at any time are debtors of a bank, association, financial or other institution, including its subsidiary or affiliated institutions, if any, for a loan, or of the vendor of any property for its purchase price, or of a guarantor of the obligation, under an agreement to pay any such indebtedness, or any balance thereof, in instalments over a period of not more than ten years, or who at any time have been granted a policy loan pursuant to a policy provision therefor, written under a policy issued, with or without medical examination, and made payable to such creditor or the assignee of the indebtedness, or the insurance company granting the policy loan, including the insurance company which issues such policy, and insuring the life of each debtor, or the person granted such policy loan, for an amount not exceeding his individual indebtedness or policy loan with interest, and not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars; provided, however, that not less than one hundred persons shall become insured under such a group policy each year after its date of issue; and provided, further, that no such debtor shall be insured in such a group for a period of more than ten years on account of a debt arising out of said loan or an obligation for the said purchase price.

Approved August 21, 1985.