District of Columbia Code
Chapter 53 - Fraternal Benefit Societies
§ 31–5304. Location of office

(a) The principal office of any domestic society shall be located in the District. The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held in any state, district, province, or territory wherein such society has at least one subordinate lodge, or in any other location as determined by the supreme governing body, and all business transacted at the meetings shall be as valid in all respects as if the meetings were held in the District. The minutes of the proceedings of the supreme governing body and of the board of directors shall be in the English language.
(b)(1) A society may provide in its laws for an official publication in which any notice, report, or statement required by law to be given to members, including notice of election, may be published. The required reports, notices, and statements shall be printed conspicuously in the publication. If the records of a society show that 2 or more members have the same mailing address, an official publication mailed to one member is deemed to be mailed to all members at the same address unless a member requests a separate copy.
(2) Not later than June 1st of each year, a synopsis of the society’s annual statement providing an explanation of the facts concerning the condition of the society thereby disclosed shall be printed and mailed to each benefit member of the society or, in lieu thereof, the synopsis may be published in the society’s official publication.
(c) A society may provide in its laws or rules for grievance or complaint procedures for members.
(Apr. 29, 1998, D.C. Law 12-86, § 1205, 45 DCR 1172.)
1981 Ed., § 35-1234.

Structure District of Columbia Code

District of Columbia Code

Title 31 - Insurance and Securities

Chapter 53 - Fraternal Benefit Societies

§ 31–5301. Definitions

§ 31–5302. Operation for benefit of members and their beneficiaries; bylaws

§ 31–5303. Qualifications for membership

§ 31–5304. Location of office

§ 31–5305. Liability of officers and members

§ 31–5306. Waiver of laws

§ 31–5307. Organization of societies

§ 31–5308. Laws; amendments

§ 31–5309. Operations of nonprofit institutions

§ 31–5310. Reinsurance

§ 31–5311. Consolidations and mergers

§ 31–5312. Conversion of fraternal benefit society into a mutual life insurance company

§ 31–5313. Benefits

§ 31–5314. Beneficiaries

§ 31–5315. Benefits not attachable

§ 31–5316. Benefit contracts

§ 31–5317. Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and other options

§ 31–5318. Investments

§ 31–5319. Funds

§ 31–5320. Taxation

§ 31–5321. Applicability of provisions

§ 31–5322. Valuation standards for certificates

§ 31–5323. Reports

§ 31–5324. Annual license

§ 31–5325. Examination of societies; no adverse publications

§ 31–5326. Foreign or alien society; admission

§ 31–5327. Injunction; liquidation; receivership of domestic society

§ 31–5328. Suspension; revocation or refusal of license of foreign or alien society

§ 31–5329. Injunction

§ 31–5330. Licensing of agents

§ 31–5331. Unfair methods of competition; unfair and deceptive acts and practices

§ 31–5332. Penalties

§ 31–5333. Exemption of certain societies

§ 31–5334. Review

§ 31–5335. Severability