1. A participant may cancel a participation agreement at will. Upon cancellation of a participation agreement, a participant shall be entitled to the return of the participant's account balance, less endowment fund investment earnings, and less a refund penalty levied by the trust against the participant's account balance earnings, if any. The penalty shall be deposited into the administrative fund.
2. a. Upon the occurrence of any of the following circumstances, no refund penalty shall be levied by the trust in the event of cancellation of a participation agreement:
b. In the event of cancellation of a participation agreement for any of the causes listed in paragraph "a", the participant shall be entitled to receive the participant's account balance, less endowment fund investment income.
(1) Death of the beneficiary.
(2) Permanent disability or mental incapacity of the beneficiary.
(3) The beneficiary is awarded a scholarship, as defined in section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code, but only to the extent the refund of earnings does not exceed the scholarship amount.
98 Acts, ch 1172, §5; 99 Acts, ch 96, § 1; 99 Acts, ch 122, §6, 7, 10
Referred to in §12D.6, 12D.9
1999 amendments to subsection 1 and subsection 2, paragraph b, apply retroactively to July 1, 1998; 99 Acts, ch 122, § 10
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