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Section 27-34-1 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...
Section 27-34-2 - Societies Deemed Operating on Lodge System. - A society having a supreme legislative or governing body and...
Section 27-34-3 - When Society Deemed as Having Representative Form of Government. - A society shall be deemed to have a representative form...
Section 27-34-4 - Applicability of Chapter - Generally. - Except as provided in this chapter, societies shall be governed...
Section 27-34-5 - Applicability of Chapter - Exceptions. - (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed...
Section 27-34-6 - License - Requirement; Renewal; Fee; Evidence. - (a) No fraternal benefit society shall transact business in this...
Section 27-34-7 - License - Foreign or Alien Societies - Application; Qualifications. - (a) No foreign or alien society shall transact business in...
Section 27-34-8 - License - Foreign or Alien Societies - Suspension, Revocation, or Refusal. - (a) When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a foreign...
Section 27-34-9 - Articles of Incorporation - Contents. - Seven or more citizens of the United States, a majority...
Section 27-34-10 - Articles of Incorporation - Filing With Other Documents; Bond; Preliminary Certificate. - Such articles of incorporation, duly certified copies of the constitution,...
Section 27-34-11 - Preliminary Certificate - Time to Complete Organization. - No preliminary certificate granted under the provisions of this section...
Section 27-34-12 - Preliminary Certificate - Initial Solicitations and Qualifications. - Upon receipt of a preliminary certificate from the commissioner, the...
Section 27-34-13 - Certificate of Compliance. - The commissioner may make such examination and require such further...
Section 27-34-14 - Constitution and Laws; Powers. - (a) Every society shall have the power to adopt a...
Section 27-34-15 - Existing Incorporated Societies. - Any incorporated society authorized to transact business in this state...
Section 27-34-16 - Incorporation of Existing Unincorporated Domestic Voluntary Associations. - (a) After January 1, 1973, no unincorporated or voluntary association...
Section 27-34-17 - Amendment of Articles of Incorporation, Constitution, or Laws. - (a) A domestic society may amend its articles of incorporation,...
Section 27-34-18 - Waiver of Societies' Laws and Constitution. - The constitution and laws of the society may provide that...
Section 27-34-19 - Principal Office of Domestic Society; Meetings of Governing Body and Minutes Thereof. - (a) The principal office of any domestic society shall be...
Section 27-34-20 - Creation, etc., of Charitable, Benevolent, or Educational Institutions. - (a) It shall be lawful for a society to create,...
Section 27-34-21 - Members - Qualifications for Membership. - (a) A society may admit to benefit membership any person...
Section 27-34-22 - Members - Payment of Equitable Part of Deficiency. - A society shall provide in its constitution or laws that...
Section 27-34-23 - Benefits - Generally. - (a) A society authorized to do business in this state...
Section 27-34-24 - Benefits - Lives of Children. - (a) A society may provide for benefits on the lives...
Section 27-34-25 - Paid-Up Nonforfeiture Benefits, Cash Surrender Values, and Certificate Loans, Etc. - (a) A society may grant paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender...
Section 27-34-26 - Beneficiaries. - (a) The member shall have the right at all times...
Section 27-34-27 - Exemption of Benefits, etc., From Attachment, Garnishment, or Other Process. - No money or other benefit, charity, relief, or aid to...
Section 27-34-28 - Personal Liability for Payment of Benefits. - The officers and members of the supreme, grand, or any...
Section 27-34-29 - Issuance of Certificate to Each Benefit Member; Matters Constituting Agreement. - (a) Every society authorized to do business in this state...
Section 27-34-30 - Life Benefit Certificate - Filing With Commissioner; Standard Provisions. - (a) After January 1, 1973, no life benefit certificate shall...
Section 27-34-31 - Life Benefit Certificate - Prohibited Provisions. - After January 1, 1973, no life benefit certificate shall be...
Section 27-34-32 - Accident or Health and Total or Permanent Disability Insurance Contracts. - (a) No domestic, foreign, or alien society authorized to do...
Section 27-34-33 - Reinsurance. - A domestic society may, by a reinsurance agreement, cede any...
Section 27-34-34 - Assets; Funds; Expenses. - (a) All assets shall be held, invested, and disbursed for...
Section 27-34-35 - Investments. - A society shall invest its funds only in such investments...
Section 27-34-36 - Annual Statements - Requirements. - (a) Report shall be filed and synopses of annual statements...
Section 27-34-37 - Annual Statements - Valuation of Certificates; Reserves. - (a) As a part of the annual statement required under...
Section 27-34-38 - Annual Statements - Failure to File. - A society neglecting to file the annual statement in the...
Section 27-34-39 - Examinations - Domestic Societies. - (a) The commissioner, or any person he may appoint, shall...
Section 27-34-40 - Examinations - Foreign and Alien Societies. - The commissioner, or any person whom he may appoint, may...
Section 27-34-41 - Examinations - Publication of Financial Statement, Report, or Finding. - Pending, during or after an examination or investigation of a...
Section 27-34-42 - Exemption From Taxation. - Every society organized or licensed under this chapter is hereby...
Section 27-34-43 - Applicability of Chapters 7 and 8a. - Persons representing a fraternal benefit society in the solicitation of...
Section 27-34-44 - Agents - Solicitation Without License. - Repealed by Act 2001-702, p. 1509, ยง 16, effective January...
Section 27-34-45 - Misrepresentations. - No person shall cause or permit to be made, issued,...
Section 27-34-46 - Discrimination, Inducements, and Rebates. - (a) No society doing business in this state shall make...
Section 27-34-47 - Service of Process. - (a) Every society authorized to do business in this state...
Section 27-34-48 - Consolidation or Merger - Procedure. - (a) A domestic society may consolidate or merge with any...
Section 27-34-49 - Consolidation or Merger - Effect. - Upon the consolidation or merger effective as provided in Section...
Section 27-34-50 - Actions to Enjoin or in Quo Warranto; Liquidation; Receivership. - (a) When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a domestic...
Section 27-34-51 - Applications for Injunctions. - No application or petition for injunction against any domestic, foreign,...
Section 27-34-52 - Review of Decisions and Findings of Commissioner. - All decisions and findings of the commissioner made under the...
Section 27-34-53 - False Statements. - Any person who willfully makes a false statement of any...
Section 27-34-54 - Applicability of Other Provisions. - In addition to the provisions heretofore contained or referred to...