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Article 1. Structure and Purpose.
Sec. 21.84.005. Representative form of government. - (a) A society has a representative form of government if...
Sec. 21.84.015. Purposes and powers. - (a) A society shall operate for the benefit of members...
Article 2. Membership.
Sec. 21.84.025. Qualifications for membership. - (a) A society shall specify in its laws or rules...
Sec. 21.84.035. Location of office; meetings; communications to members; grievance procedures. - (a) The principal office of a domestic society must be...
Sec. 21.84.045. No personal liability; indemnity. - (a) The officers and members of the supreme governing body...
Sec. 21.84.055. Waiver. - The laws of the society may provide that a subordinate...
Article 3. Governance.
Sec. 21.84.059. Amendments to laws. - (a) A domestic society may amend its laws in accordance...
Sec. 21.84.060. Organization. - The organization of a domestic society organized on or after...
Sec. 21.84.070. Filing articles and documents. - The articles of incorporation, certified copies of the domestic society's...
Sec. 21.84.080. Time for completing organization. - A preliminary certificate of authority is not valid after one...
Sec. 21.84.090. Initial solicitations and qualifications. - Upon receipt of a preliminary certificate of authority from the...
Sec. 21.84.100. Certificate of authority. - The director may make the examination and require further information...
Sec. 21.84.120. Corporate powers retained. - An incorporated society authorized to transact business in this state...
Sec. 21.84.130. Existing voluntary associations. - (a) After July 1, 1967, an unincorporated or voluntary association...
Sec. 21.84.170. Institutions. - (a) It is lawful for a society to create, maintain,...
Sec. 21.84.175. Reinsurance. - (a) A domestic society may, by a reinsurance agreement, cede...
Sec. 21.84.185. Consolidations and mergers. - (a) A domestic society may consolidate or merge with another...
Sec. 21.84.195. Conversion to a mutual life insurance company. - A domestic fraternal benefit society may be converted and licensed...
Article 4. Contractual Benefits.
Sec. 21.84.201. Benefits. - (a) A society may provide the following contractual benefits in...
Sec. 21.84.230. Beneficiaries. - (a) The owner of a benefit contract shall have the...
Sec. 21.84.240. Benefits not attachable. - Money or other benefit, charity, relief, or aid to be...
Sec. 21.84.255. The benefit contract. - (a) A society authorized to do business in this state...
Sec. 21.84.265. Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and other options. - (a) For certificates issued before one year after the January...
Article 5. Financial.
Sec. 21.84.275. Investments. - A society shall invest its funds only in investments authorized...
Sec. 21.84.320. Funds. - (a) All assets shall be held, invested, and disbursed for...
Sec. 21.84.335. Applicability of other code provisions. - (a) Except as provided in this section, societies are governed...
Sec. 21.84.400. Taxation. - Every society organized or licensed under this chapter is a...
Article 6. Regulation.
Sec. 21.84.455. Valuation. - (a) Standards of valuation for certificates issued before January 1,...
Sec. 21.84.465. Reports. - (a) Reports shall be filed in accordance with the provisions...
Sec. 21.84.475. License. - Societies that are authorized to transact business in this state...
Sec. 21.84.485. Examination of societies. - The director may examine a society in the manner authorized...
Sec. 21.84.495. Foreign or alien society; admission. - A foreign or alien society may not transact business in...
Sec. 21.84.530. Injunction, liquidation, receivership of domestic society. - (a) When the director upon investigation finds that a domestic...
Sec. 21.84.535. Suspension, revocation, or refusal of license of foreign or alien society. - (a) When the director, upon investigation, finds that a foreign...
Sec. 21.84.540. Injunction. - An application or petition for injunction against a domestic, foreign,...
Sec. 21.84.565. Licensing of agents. - (a) Agents of societies shall be licensed in accordance with...
Sec. 21.84.575. Unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts and practices. - A society and an agent authorized to do business in...
Article 7. Miscellaneous.
Sec. 21.84.625. Service of process. - (a) A society authorized to do business in this state...
Sec. 21.84.650. Penalties. - (a) A person who knowingly makes a false or fraudulent...
Sec. 21.84.675. Review. - Decisions and findings of the director made under the provisions...
Sec. 21.84.700. Exemption of certain societies. - (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to...
Sec. 21.84.900. Definitions. - In this chapter, (1) “alien society” means a society formed...