Any domestic life insurance company, including any domestic fraternal benefit society that operates on a legal reserve basis, may establish one or more separate accounts and may allocate thereto amounts, including proceeds applied under optional modes of settlement or under dividend options, to provide for life insurance, and benefits incidental thereto, payable in fixed or variable amounts or both, subject to the following:

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1.    The income, gains, and losses, realized or unrealized from assets allocated to a separate account, must be credited to or charged against the account, without regard to other income, gains, or losses of the company.

2.    Except as may be provided with respect to reserves for guaranteed benefits and funds referred to in subsection 3:

a.    Amounts allocated to any separate account and accumulations thereon may be invested and reinvested without regard to any requirements or limitations prescribed by laws of this state governing the investments of life insurance companies.

b.    Investments in a separate account or accounts may not be taken into account in applying the investment limitations otherwise applicable to the investments of the company.

3.    Except with the approval of the commissioner and under any conditions as to investments and other matters the commissioner may prescribe, which must recognize the guaranteed nature of the benefits provided, reserves for benefits guaranteed as to dollar amount and duration and funds guaranteed as to principal amount or stated rate of interest may not be maintained in a separate account.

4.    Unless otherwise approved by the commissioner, assets allocated to a separate account must be valued at their market value on the date of valuation, or if there is no readily available market, then as provided under the terms of the contract or the rules or other written agreement applicable to the separate account. Unless otherwise approved by the commissioner, the portion of the assets of the separate account equal to the company’s reserve liability with regard to the guaranteed benefits and funds referred to in subsection 3 must be valued in accordance with the rules otherwise applicable to the company’s assets.

5.    Amounts allocated to a separate account are owned by the company, and the company may not be, nor hold itself out to be, a trustee with respect to such amounts.

To the extent provided under the applicable contracts, that portion of the assets of any separate account equal to the reserves and other contract liabilities with respect to the    account is not chargeable with liabilities arising out of any other business the company may conduct.

6.    No sale, exchange, or other transfer of assets may be made by a company between any of its separate accounts or between any other investment account and its separate accounts unless, in case of a transfer into a separate account, the transfer is made solely to establish the account or to support the operation of the contracts with respect to the separate account to which the transfer is made, and unless the transfer, whether into or from a separate account, is made by a transfer of cash or by a transfer of securities having a readily determinable market value, provided that a transfer of securities is approved by the commissioner. The commissioner may approve other transfers among such accounts if, in the commissioner’s opinion, the transfers would not be inequitable.

7.    To the extent the company determines it is necessary to comply with any applicable federal or state laws, the company, with respect to any separate account, including any separate account which is a management investment company or a unit investment trust, may provide for persons having an interest therein appropriate voting and other rights and special procedures for the conduct of the business of the account, including special rights and procedures relating to investment policy, investment advisory services, selection of independent public accountants, and selection of a committee, the members of which need not be otherwise affiliated with the company, to manage the business of the account.