California Code
PART 2 - LIFE AND DISABILITY INSURANCE
CHAPTER 10 - Fraternal Benefit Societies

ARTICLE 1 - Scope of Chapter

Section 10970. - 10970. Fraternal benefit societies shall be governed by this chapter...

Section 10971. - 10971. This chapter shall not, except as provided by Sections...

Section 10972. - 10972. (1) A lodge operating under the lodge system, as...

Section 10973. - 10973. The commissioner may require from any society such information...

Section 10974. - 10974. A lodge, subordinate branch thereof or association formed by...

Section 10975. - 10975. Any fraternal benefit society organized and operating within the...

Section 10976. - 10976. Any incorporated fraternal benefit society engaged on July 29,...

ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

Section 10990. - 10990. Any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without capital...

Section 10991. - 10991. A society having a supreme legislative or governing body...

Section 10992. - 10992. A society shall be deemed to have a representative...

Section 10993. - 10993. Every fraternal benefit society organized or admitted under this...

ARTICLE 3 - Organization

Section 11010. - 11010. Seven or more United States citizens, a majority of...

Section 11011. - 11011. The articles of incorporation, duly certified copies of the...

Section 11012. - 11012. No such preliminary certificate shall be valid after one...

Section 11013. - 11013. Upon receipt of a preliminary certificate from the commissioner,...

Section 11014. - 11014. The commissioner may make such examination and require such...

Section 11015. - 11015. Every such society shall have the power to make...

Section 11016. - 11016. A society shall operate for the benefit of its...

Section 11017. - 11017. After September 21, 1952, no unincorporated or voluntary association...

Section 11018. - 11018. Any domestic society may provide that the meetings of...

Section 11019. - 11019. A domestic society shall not consolidate or merge with...

Section 11020. - 11020. If the commissioner finds that such contract is in...

Section 11021. - 11021. Upon the consolidation or merger becoming effective, all the...

Section 11022. - 11022. The affidavit of any officer of the society or...

Section 11023. - 11023. A society may admit to benefit membership any person...

Section 11024. - 11024. Any person admitted to benefit membership in such society...

Section 11025. - 11025. A society may accept general or social members who...

Section 11026. - 11026. A domestic society may amend its articles of incorporation,...

Section 11027. - 11027. No amendment to the articles of incorporation, constitution or...

Section 11028. - 11028. Within 90 days from the approval thereof by the...

Section 11029. - 11029. Every foreign society transacting business under this chapter shall...

Section 11030. - 11030. Printed copies of the constitution or laws of any...

Section 11031. - 11031. A society may create, maintain and operate hospitals, asylums,...

Section 11032. - 11032. Maintenance, treatment and proper attendance in any such institution...

Section 11033. - 11033. A society maintaining special funds of the nature set...

ARTICLE 4 - Benefits

Section 11040. - 11040. All benefits provided for in the laws and agreements...

Section 11041. - 11041. An admitted society may, by the issuance of certificates,...

Section 11042. - 11042. A society may provide for benefits on the lives...

Section 11043. - 11043. A society may grant nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values,...

Section 11044. - 11044. No beneficiary shall have or obtain any vested interest...

ARTICLE 5 - Contract

Section 11060. - 11060. Every society authorized to do business in this State...

Section 11061. - 11061. All statements purporting to be made by the member...

Section 11062. - 11062. Any changes, additions or amendments to the charter or...

Section 11063. - 11063. Copies of any of the documents mentioned in Sections...

Section 11064. - 11064. A society shall provide specifically in its certificates that...

Section 11065. - 11065. Every society authorized to do business in this State...

Section 11066. - 11066. After the effective date of the amendments to this...

Section 11067. - 11067. After September 21, 1952, no life insurance benefit certificate...

Section 11068. - 11068. After September 21, 1954, no life insurance benefit certificate...

Section 11069. - 11069. No domestic, foreign or alien society authorized to do...

Section 11070. - 11070. After September 21, 1954, no action at law or...

Section 11071. - 11071. The constitution and laws of the society may provide...

Section 11072. - 11072. A domestic society may, by a reinsurance agreement, cede...

Section 11073. - 11073. If the contract of a society entered into, amended,...

ARTICLE 6 - Powers of Commissioner

Section 11090. - 11090. Subject to the annual fee provisions as provided herein,...

Section 11091. - 11091. No foreign or alien society shall transact business in...

Section 11092. - 11092. The commissioner shall act as prescribed in Section 11093...

Section 11093. - 11093. (a) If the commissioner finds that any of the...

Section 11094. - 11094. If the court orders the society enjoined, the commissioner...

Section 11095. - 11095. If the court orders the society liquidated, it shall...

Section 11096. - 11096. The provisions of Sections 11093 to 11095 relating to...

Section 11097. - 11097. The commissioner shall act as prescribed in Section 11098...

Section 11098. - 11098. If the commissioner finds that any of the conditions...

Section 11099. - 11099. Article 14 (commencing with Section 1010) of Chapter 1...

Section 11100. - 11100. Every society operating under the provisions of this chapter...

Section 11101. - 11101. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 11102 and 11103,...

Section 11102. - 11102. Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 1621) of Part 2...

Section 11103. - 11103. Insofar as his or her license to represent a...

Section 11104. - 11104. Every society authorized to do business in this State...

Section 11105. - 11105. Service may be made as provided in Article 1...

Section 11106. - 11106. An application for injunction against, proceedings for the dissolution...

Section 11107. - 11107. A fraternal benefit society, its members, employees, agents, delegates,...

Section 11108. - 11108. Any domestic society may be converted into and receive...

Section 11109. - 11109. On such conversion: (a) Except as provided in (b)...

Section 11110. - 11110. In addition to any other ground for disapproving such...

Section 11111. - 11111. Any society may comply with subsection (a) of Section...

Section 11112. - 11112. All decisions and findings of the commissioner made under...

ARTICLE 7 - Financial Matters

Section 11120. - 11120. When a society, or a class or section thereof,...

Section 11121. - 11121. Unless it operates under Section 11120, a society, or...

Section 11122. - 11122. Any society may create, maintain, invest, disburse and apply...

Section 11122.1. - 11122.1. A society may, if authorized by a resolution of...

Section 11123. - 11123. Any such society may own real estate and buildings...

Section 11124. - 11124. Unless otherwise provided in the contracts of the members,...

Section 11125. - 11125. Every domestic society shall invest its funds only in...

Section 11126. - 11126. An admitted foreign society shall invest its funds either...

Section 11127. - 11127. An admitted foreign society organized under the laws of...

Section 11128. - 11128. The value of the trusteed assets referred to in...

Section 11129. - 11129. The provisions of Sections 1596 to 1598, inclusive, shall...

Section 11130. - 11130. The commissioner may require any society specified in Section...

Section 11131. - 11131. Every society transacting business in this state shall annually,...

Section 11132. - 11132. A synopsis of its annual statement and valuation report...

Section 11133. - 11133. In addition to the annual report required by Section...

Section 11134. - 11134. Except as otherwise provided in Section 10489.6, reserves according...

Section 11135. - 11135. The present value of deferred payments due under incurred...

Section 11136. - 11136. Except as otherwise provided in Section 10489.4, such valuation...

Section 11137. - 11137. Whenever the commissioner finds from any financial statement or...

Section 11138. - 11138. The commissioner, or any person he may appoint, shall...

Section 11139. - 11139. No report of examination shall be adopted by the...

Section 11140. - 11140. The commissioner, or any person whom he may appoint,...

Section 11141. - 11141. Pending, during or after an examination or investigation of...

Section 11142. - 11142. No person shall cause or permit to be made,...

Section 11143. - 11143. A comparison of insurance contracts is incomplete if it...

Section 11144. - 11144. A comparison of insurance contracts is incomplete if it...

Section 11145. - 11145. In any determination of the incompleteness or misleading character...

Section 11146. - 11146. Any person who violates any provision of Sections 11142...

ARTICLE 8 - Violations and Penalties

Section 11160. - 11160. Compensation shall not be paid to any employee or...

Section 11161. - 11161. Any person violating Section 11160 is guilty of a...

Section 11162. - 11162. It is a felony, punishable by imprisonment pursuant to...

Section 11163. - 11163. It is a felony, punishable by imprisonment pursuant to...

Section 11164. - 11164. Any person not authorized pursuant to Section 11013 who...

Section 11165. - 11165. Any person who knowingly or willfully makes any false...