276. Every insurer other than a mutual benefit association, transacting insurance of persons must maintain a reserve sufficient to guarantee its obligations to its insured in accordance with the following provisions:(a) the mortality tables and sickness tables, other contingency tables and methods of computing must comply with the standards established by the regulations;
(b) the rate of interest must not exceed 4 per cent for contracts of insurance of persons but the Superintendent may allow a higher rate of interest for a particular class of contracts during the period which he determines;
(c) the part of the reserve ralating to policies having a surrender value must not be less than the amount of the surrender values of such policies.