Rhode Island General Laws
Title 27 - Insurance
Chapter 27-25 - Rhode Island Fraternal Code

Section 27-25-1. - Fraternal benefit societies. - § 27-25-1. Fraternal benefit societies. Any incorporated society, order, or...

Section 27-25-2. - Lodge system. - § 27-25-2. Lodge system. (a) A society is operating on...

Section 27-25-3. - Representative form of government. - § 27-25-3. Representative form of government. A society has a...

Section 27-25-4. - Definitions. - § 27-25-4. Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter: (1) “Benefit...

Section 27-25-5. - Purposes and powers. - § 27-25-5. Purposes and powers. (a) A society shall operate...

Section 27-25-6. - Qualifications for membership. - § 27-25-6. Qualifications for membership. (a) A society shall specify...

Section 27-25-7. - Location of office and meetings — Communications to members — Grievance procedures. - § 27-25-7. Location of office and meetings — Communications to...

Section 27-25-8. - No personal liability. - § 27-25-8. No personal liability. (a) The officers and members...

Section 27-25-9. - Waiver. - § 27-25-9. Waiver. The laws of the society may provide...

Section 27-25-10. - Organization. - § 27-25-10. Organization. A domestic society shall be formed as...

Section 27-25-11. - Amendments to laws. - § 27-25-11. Amendments to laws. (a) A domestic society may...

Section 27-25-12. - Institutions. - § 27-25-12. Institutions. A society may create, maintain and operate,...

Section 27-25-13. - Reinsurance. - § 27-25-13. Reinsurance. (a) A domestic society may, by a...

Section 27-25-14. - Consolidations and mergers. - § 27-25-14. Consolidations and mergers. (a) A domestic society may...

Section 27-25-15. - Conversion of fraternal benefit society into mutual life insurance company. - § 27-25-15. Conversion of fraternal benefit society into mutual life...

Section 27-25-16. - Benefits. - § 27-25-16. Benefits. (a) A society may provide the following...

Section 27-25-17. - Beneficiaries. - § 27-25-17. Beneficiaries. (a) The owner of a benefit contract...

Section 27-25-18. - Benefits not attachable. - § 27-25-18. Benefits not attachable. No money or other benefit,...

Section 27-25-19. - The benefit contract. - § 27-25-19. The benefit contract. (a) Every society authorized to...

Section 27-25-20. - Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and other options. - § 27-25-20. Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and...

Section 27-25-21. - Investments. - § 27-25-21. Investments. A society shall invest its funds only...

Section 27-25-22. - Funds. - § 27-25-22. Funds. (a) All assets shall be held, invested,...

Section 27-25-23. - Exemptions. - § 27-25-23. Exemptions. Except as provided in this chapter, societies...

Section 27-25-24. - Taxation. - § 27-25-24. Taxation. Every society organized or licensed under this...

Section 27-25-25. - Valuation. - § 27-25-25. Valuation. (a) Standards of valuation for certificates issued...

Section 27-25-26. - Reports. - § 27-25-26. Reports. (a) Reports shall be filed in accordance...

Section 27-25-27. - Annual license. - § 27-25-27. Annual license. (a) The authority of all societies...

Section 27-25-28. - Examination of societies — No adverse publication. - § 27-25-28. Examination of societies — No adverse publication. (a)...

Section 27-25-29. - Foreign or alien society — Admission. - § 27-25-29. Foreign or alien society — Admission. No foreign...

Section 27-25-30. - Injunction — Liquidation — Receivership of domestic society. - § 27-25-30. Injunction — Liquidation — Receivership of domestic society....

Section 27-25-31. - Suspension, revocation, or refusal of license of foreign or alien society. - § 27-25-31. Suspension, revocation, or refusal of license of foreign...

Section 27-25-32. - Injunction. - § 27-25-32. Injunction. No application or petition for injunction against...

Section 27-25-33. - Licensing of insurance producers. - § 27-25-33. Licensing of insurance producers. (a) Insurance producers of...

Section 27-25-34. - Unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts and practices. - § 27-25-34. Unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive...

Section 27-25-35. - Service of process. - § 27-25-35. Service of process. (a) Every society authorized to...

Section 27-25-36. - Review. - § 27-25-36. Review. All decisions and findings of the commissioner...

Section 27-25-37. - Penalties. - § 27-25-37. Penalties. (a) Any person who willfully makes a...

Section 27-25-38. - Exemption of certain societies. - § 27-25-38. Exemption of certain societies. (a) Nothing contained in...

Section 27-25-39. - Reciprocal fees and charges. - § 27-25-39. Reciprocal fees and charges. Whenever by the laws...

Section 27-25-40. - Payments of commissions to other than agent or insurance producer forbidden. - § 27-25-40. Payments of commissions to other than agent or...

Section 27-25-41. - Payment of benefits other than insurance benefits. - § 27-25-41. Payment of benefits other than insurance benefits. (a)...

Section 27-25-42. - Severability. - § 27-25-42. Severability. If any provision of this chapter or...

Section 27-25-43. - Short title. - § 27-25-43. Short title. This chapter shall be known and...

Section 27-25-44. - Fraternal benefit society assessment. - § 27-25-44. Fraternal benefit society assessment. (a) Notwithstanding any other...