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information you or your designee furnishes. We need not inquire as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. If any essential data pertaining to any person has been omitted or misstated, including, but not limited to, a misstatement of an annuitant's' or contingent annuitant's age, we will make an equitable adjustment to provide the annuity or other benefit determined using correct data. 9.6 Assignment by Contractholder: You may assign this contract by filing the original or a duplicate of the assignment with us. We are not responsible for the validity of an assignment. 9.7 Requirement for Writing: When reference is made to you or your designee making a request or giving notice. instruction, or direction, such request, notice, instruction, or direction must be in writing, or in a form otherwise acceptable to us, and is effective when we receive it. 9.8 Effect of Failure to Maintain Governmental Status: You will promptly notify us if the Plan Sponsor ceases to be a governmental entity. In such event, your FIA amounts will be withdrawn and transferred to Liquid Interest Fund II (LIF Il) within our general asset account, where such amounts earn a fixed annual effective interest rate equal to the §3.3 minimum Guaranteed Rate from the date of allocation to LIF II until the earlier of the date those funds are withdrawn from the contract or the Plan Sponsor again qualifies as a governmental entity and such funds are transferred to the FIA. No amounts attributable to this contract can be placed in the FIA until the Plan Sponsor again qualifies as a governmental entity. 9.9 Conformity with Law: Any benefit payable under this contract shall not be less than the minimum benefit required by the insurance laws of the state in which the contract is delivered. Language in this contract referring to state or federal tax, securities, or other statutes or rules do not incorporate within this contract any such statutes or rules. 9.10 Gender and Number: Whenever the context so requires, the plural includes the singular, the singular the plural, and the masculine the feminine. 9.11 Facility of Payment: If you have directed us to pay any Participant, contingent annuitant, or beneficiary who is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt for any payment, and no guardian has been appointed, we will pay you directly. Any such payment fully discharges us to the extent of such payment. 9.12 Acceptance of New Contributions: We may refuse to accept new Contributions at any time. 9.13 Emergencies: If regular banking activities are suspended, or if emergency or other circumstances beyond our control exist that make the disposal of assets reasonably impractical or that cause Home Office business activity to be disrupted, we may defer processing Contributions, transfers, withdrawals, payments, or other financial transactions under this contract for a reasonable period, in light of then -current conditions. 9.14 Our Annual Statement: No provision of this contract controls, determines, or modifies any annual statement made by us to any insurance department, Contractholder, regulatory body, or other person. Nor does anything in such annual statement control, determine, or modify the provisions of this contract. 9.15 Notice of Annual Meeting of Members: By-law, Art II, Sec. 2: the regular annual meeting of the members of American United Mutual Insurance Holding Company shall be held at its principal place of business on the third Thursday in February each year at ten o'clock A.M. local time or at such GB8.OM-KuFIA3121 SpPport (SBR-NR457) 15