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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. Any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without...
Section 1a - Applicability of Chapter 176v to Fraternal Benefit Societies - Section 1A. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...
Section 1b - Applicability of Chapter 176w to Fraternal Benefit Societies - Section 1B. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...
Section 2 - Lodge System - Section 2. A society having a supreme legislative or governing...
Section 3 - Representative Form of Government - Section 3. A society has a representative form of government...
Section 4 - Articles of Incorporation; Preliminary Certificate; Certificate; Powers - Section 4. (1) Seven or more citizens of the United...
Section 5 - Principal Office - Section 5. The principal office of any domestic society shall...
Section 6 - Change in Location of Place of Business or Purposes of Incorporation; Rights, Powers and Privileges - Section 6. A domestic fraternal benefit corporation may, with the...
Section 7 - Consolidation or Merger - Section 7. A domestic society may consolidate or merge with...
Section 8 - Conversion to Mutual Life Insurance Company - Section 8. Any domestic society may be converted and licensed...
Section 9 - Admission to Membership - Section 9. A society may admit to benefit membership any...
Section 10 - Amendment of Articles of Incorporation - Section 10. A domestic society may amend its articles of...
Section 11 - Fraudulent Alteration, etc., of Records - Section 11. Whoever with fraudulent intent alters, defaces, mutilates, destroys...
Section 12 - Funds - Section 12. Any society may create, maintain, invest, disburse and...
Section 13 - Disbursements; Vouchers - Section 13. No society shall make any disbursements of fifteen...
Section 14 - Creation and Operation of Charitable, Benevolent or Educational Institutions - Section 14. It shall be lawful for a society to...
Section 15 - Benefits Other Than Insurance Benefits - Section 15. A society may pay benefits, other than insurance...
Section 16 - Liability of Officers and Members; Indemnification - Section 16. (a) The officers and members of the supreme,...
Section 17 - Benefits - Section 17. A society authorized to do business in the...
Section 18 - Children - Section 18. A society may provide for benefits on the...
Section 19 - Deferred Payments or Instalments - Section 19. Deferred payments or instalments of claims shall be...
Section 20 - Paid-Up Nonforfeiture Benefits, Cash Surrender Values, and Other Options - Section 20. A society may grant paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, cash...
Section 21 - Change of Beneficiary; Interest of Beneficiary; Funeral Benefits; Payment of Benefits to Personal Representative - Section 21. (a) The owner of a benefit contract shall...
Section 22 - Attachment or Other Process - Section 22. No money or other benefit, charity, relief or...
Section 22a - Burial Benefits; Restrictions; Payment - Section 22A. No society shall by its by-laws or by...
Section 23 - Certificate; Agreement Between Society and Member; Statements by Member as Representations; Reserves - Section 23. Every society authorized to do business in the...
Section 24 - Filing Copies of Forms With Commissioner; Standard Provisions of Certificates - Section 24. (a) No certificate shall be delivered or issued...
Section 25 - Surplus of Assets; Waiver of Contributions - Section 25. Whenever it appears by a valuation certified to...
Section 27 - Waiver of By-Laws or Constitutional Provisions by Subordinate Bodies, Officers or Members - Section 27. The constitution and by-laws of the society may...
Section 28 - Reinsurance - Section 28. A domestic society may, by a reinsurance agreement,...
Section 29 - Termination and Renewal of Licenses; Fees; License as Evidence - Section 29. The authority of a society licensed under the...
Section 30 - Licensing of Foreign or Alien Societies - Section 30. No foreign or alien society shall transact business...
Section 31 - Action by Beneficiary - Section 31. The beneficiary under a certificate issued by any...
Section 32 - Foreign Societies; Deposits - Section 32. A foreign society, if formed under the laws...
Section 33 - Injunction Against Transaction of Business; Grounds; Procedure - Section 33. When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a...
Section 34 - Foreign or Alien Societies; Suspension or Denial of License - Section 34. When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a...
Section 35 - Agents of Societies; Licensing - Section 35. Agents of societies shall be licensed in accordance...
Section 36 - Commissioner as Attorney for Service of Process - Section 36. Every society authorized to do business in the...
Section 37 - Injunction; Attorney General - Section 37. No application or petition for injunction against any...
Section 38 - Review of Commissioner's Decisions and Findings - Section 38. All decisions and findings of the commissioner made...
Section 39 - Assets; Special Funds; Expenses - Section 39. All assets shall be held, invested and disbursed...
Section 40 - Investment of Funds - Section 40. Every society shall invest its funds in securities...
Section 41 - Reports; Annual Statements - Section 41. Reports shall be filed and synopsis of annual...
Section 42 - Valuation of Bonds or Other Evidences of Debt - Section 42. Any society may, in the annual statement required...
Section 43 - Additional, Increased or Extra Rates of Contributions - Section 43. If the stated periodical contributions of the members...
Section 44 - Domestic Societies; Visitation and Examination; Confidentiality and Privilege; Report and Recommendations - Section 44. The commissioner, or any person he may appoint,...
Section 45 - Foreign or Alien Societies; Examination; Confidentiality and Privilege - Section 45. The commissioner, or any person whom he may...
Section 46 - Financial Statement, Report or Finding; Service Upon Society - Section 46. Pending, during or after an examination or investigation...
Section 47 - Misrepresentations, Etc. Concerning Society or Contract - Section 47. No person shall cause or permit to be...
Section 48 - Unfair Discrimination; Inducements Not Specified in Certificate or Contract - Section 48. No society doing business in the commonwealth shall...
Section 49 - Tax Exemption - Section 49. Every society organized or licensed under this chapter...
Section 50 - Law Governing - Section 50. Societies shall be governed by this chapter, and...
Section 51 - Application of Chapter - Section 51. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so...
Section 52 - Penalties - Section 52. Any person who willfully makes a false or...
Section 53 - Jurisdiction to Restrain Violations, Etc. - Section 53. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity,...
Section 54 - Validity of Contracts Issued in Violation of Chapter, Charter, Articles, Constitution or By-Laws - Section 54. Any contract of insurance or any benefit certificate...
Section 55 - Solicitation of Membership in Society Not Authorized to Transact Business, Etc. - Section 55. Whoever solicits membership in any society not duly...
Section 56 - Payment of Pensions to Employees of Society - Section 56. Any society operating on the lodge system with...