§ 27-25-41. Payment of benefits other than insurance benefits.
(a) A society may pay benefits, other than insurance benefits, to its members from any special account or fund maintained for that purpose; provided, that if the benefits are of a nature that they could constitute benefits within the class of insurance set forth in this chapter, a society making the payments may not:
(1) Make any separate charge for the payments;
(2) Issue any certificate, policy, or other document promising the payments;
(3) Provide in its constitution, laws, or any other document that the payments may be received by the member as a matter of right; or
(4) Advertise the payments as insurance or as payments to which the member has any right.
(b) The society shall maintain a separate accounting of all disbursements made under this section and report them in its annual statement.
History of Section.P.L. 1984, ch. 201, § 2.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 27-25 - Rhode Island Fraternal Code
Section 27-25-1. - Fraternal benefit societies.
Section 27-25-2. - Lodge system.
Section 27-25-3. - Representative form of government.
Section 27-25-4. - Definitions.
Section 27-25-5. - Purposes and powers.
Section 27-25-6. - Qualifications for membership.
Section 27-25-8. - No personal liability.
Section 27-25-10. - Organization.
Section 27-25-11. - Amendments to laws.
Section 27-25-12. - Institutions.
Section 27-25-13. - Reinsurance.
Section 27-25-14. - Consolidations and mergers.
Section 27-25-15. - Conversion of fraternal benefit society into mutual life insurance company.
Section 27-25-17. - Beneficiaries.
Section 27-25-18. - Benefits not attachable.
Section 27-25-19. - The benefit contract.
Section 27-25-21. - Investments.
Section 27-25-23. - Exemptions.
Section 27-25-25. - Valuation.
Section 27-25-27. - Annual license.
Section 27-25-28. - Examination of societies — No adverse publication.
Section 27-25-29. - Foreign or alien society — Admission.
Section 27-25-30. - Injunction — Liquidation — Receivership of domestic society.
Section 27-25-31. - Suspension, revocation, or refusal of license of foreign or alien society.
Section 27-25-32. - Injunction.
Section 27-25-33. - Licensing of insurance producers.
Section 27-25-34. - Unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts and practices.
Section 27-25-35. - Service of process.
Section 27-25-37. - Penalties.
Section 27-25-38. - Exemption of certain societies.
Section 27-25-39. - Reciprocal fees and charges.
Section 27-25-40. - Payments of commissions to other than agent or insurance producer forbidden.
Section 27-25-41. - Payment of benefits other than insurance benefits.
Section 27-25-42. - Severability.