Section 3. No company shall make a contract of insurance or annuity, including any such insurance or annuity contract which is a contract on a variable basis, upon or relative to any property or interests or lives in the commonwealth, or with any resident thereof, and no person shall negotiate, solicit, sell or in any manner aid in the transaction of such contracts, or of their continuance or renewal, except as authorized by this chapter or chapter one hundred and seventy-six, or except as otherwise expressly authorized by law; and any such contract and the negotiation, solicitation, sale or transaction thereof by any person shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and ten A.

Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 175 sec. 3

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • annuity contract: when used in this chapter, except in sections one hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and thirty and one hundred and thirty-two, shall include a group annuity contract unless the context otherwise requires or a different meaning is specifically prescribed. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 175 sec. 132E
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Interests: includes any form of membership in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
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