(a) A society may provide for benefits on the lives of children under the minimum age for adult membership but not greater than twenty-one years of age at time of application therefor, upon the application of some adult person, as its laws or rules may provide, which benefits shall be in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of section seventeen of this article. A society may, at its option, organize and operate branches for such children. Membership and initiation in local lodges shall not be required of such children, nor shall they have a voice in the management of the society.
(b) A society shall have power to provide for the designation and changing of designation of beneficiaries in the certificates providing for such benefits and to provide in all other respects for the regulation, government and control of such certificates and all rights, obligations and liabilities incident thereto and connected therewith.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 23. Fraternal Benefit Societies
§33-23-2. Applicability of Other Provisions
§33-23-2a. Applicability of Insurance Fraud Prevention Act
§33-23-3. Fraternal Benefit Societies Defined
§33-23-4. Lodge System Defined
§33-23-5. Representative Form of Government Defined
§33-23-7. Retention of Corporate Powers by Existing Incorporated Societies
§33-23-8. Incorporation of Existing Voluntary Associations
§33-23-9. Office and Meetings of Domestic Society
§33-23-10. Consolidations and Mergers
§33-23-11. Conversion of Society to Mutual Life Insurer
§33-23-12. Qualifications for Benefit Membership
§33-23-13. Amendment of Articles of Incorporation, Constitution or Laws
§33-23-14. Operation of Charitable, Benevolent or Educational Institutions
§33-23-15. Payment of Benefits Other Than Insurance Benefits
§33-23-16. No Personal Liability for Payment of Benefits
§33-23-17. Kinds of Benefits Authorized
§33-23-18. Benefits on Lives of Children
§33-23-19. Nonforfeiture Benefits, Cash Surrender Values, Loans and Options
§33-23-21. Benefits Not Liable to Process
§33-23-22. Certificates and Agreement With Members
§33-23-23. Approval of Certificates; Standard and Prohibited Provisions
§33-23-24. Filing and Approval of Accident and Sickness Insurance Certificates
§33-23-25. Waiver of Laws and Constitution of Society
§33-23-27. Licensing of Foreign and Alien Societies
§33-23-29. Fees; Exemption of Funds and Assets From Taxation
§33-23-32. Reports and Synopses of Annual Statements; Valuations