Section 27-34-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY. Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge without capital stock, including one exempted under the provisions of subdivision (a) (3) of Section 27-34-5, whether incorporated or not, conducted […]
Section 27-34-10 Articles of incorporation – Filing with other documents; bond; preliminary certificate. Such articles of incorporation, duly certified copies of the constitution, laws, and rules, copies of all proposed forms of certificates, applications therefor, and circulars to be issued by the society and a bond conditioned upon the return to applicants of the advanced […]
Section 27-34-11 Preliminary certificate – Time to complete organization. No preliminary certificate granted under the provisions of this section shall be valid after one year from its date or after such further period, not exceeding one year, as may be authorized by the commissioner upon cause shown, unless the 500 applicants required in this chapter […]
Section 27-34-12 Preliminary certificate – Initial solicitations and qualifications. Upon receipt of a preliminary certificate from the commissioner, the society may solicit members for the purpose of completing its organization, shall collect from each applicant the amount of not less than one regular monthly premium in accordance with its table of rates as provided by […]
Section 27-34-13 Certificate of compliance. The commissioner may make such examination and require such further information as he deems advisable. Upon presentation of satisfactory evidence that the society has complied with all the provisions of law, he shall issue to the society a certificate to that effect and that the society is authorized to transact […]
Section 27-34-14 Constitution and laws; powers. (a) Every society shall have the power to adopt a constitution and laws for the government of the society, the admission of its members, the management of its affairs and the fixing and readjusting of the rates of its members from time to time. It shall have the power […]
Section 27-34-15 Existing incorporated societies. Any incorporated society authorized to transact business in this state on January 1, 1973, may thereafter exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges prescribed in this chapter and in its charter or articles of incorporation as far as consistent with this chapter. A domestic society shall not be required to […]
Section 27-34-16 Incorporation of existing unincorporated domestic voluntary associations. (a) After January 1, 1973, no unincorporated or voluntary association shall be permitted to transact business in this state as a fraternal benefit society. (b) Any domestic voluntary association now authorized to transact business in this state may incorporate and shall receive from the commissioner a […]
Section 27-34-17 Amendment of articles of incorporation, constitution, or laws. (a) A domestic society may amend its articles of incorporation, constitution, or laws in accordance with the provisions thereof by action of its supreme legislative or governing body at any regular or special meeting thereof or, if its articles of incorporation, constitution, or laws so […]
Section 27-34-18 Waiver of societies’ laws and constitution. The constitution and laws of the society may provide that no subordinate body, nor any of its subordinate officers or members, shall have the power or authority to waive any of the provisions of the laws and constitution of the society. Such provision shall be binding on […]
Section 27-34-19 Principal office of domestic society; meetings of governing body and minutes thereof. (a) The principal office of any domestic society shall be located in this state. The meetings of its supreme legislative or governing body may be held in any state, district, province, or territory wherein such society has at least five subordinate […]
Section 27-34-2 Societies deemed operating on lodge system. A society having a supreme legislative or governing body and subordinate lodges or branches, by whatever name known, into which members are elected, initiated, or admitted in accordance with its constitution, laws, ritual, and rules, which subordinate lodges or branches are required by the laws of the […]
Section 27-34-20 Creation, etc., of charitable, benevolent, or educational institutions. (a) It shall be lawful for a society to create, maintain, and operate charitable, benevolent, or educational institutions for the benefit of its members and their families and dependents and for the benefit of children insured by the society. For such purpose, it may own, […]
Section 27-34-21 Members – Qualifications for membership. (a) A society may admit to benefit membership any person not less than 15 years of age, nearest birthday, who has furnished evidence of insurability acceptable to the society. Any such member who shall apply for additional benefits more than six months after becoming a benefit member shall […]
Section 27-34-22 Members – Payment of equitable part of deficiency. A society shall provide in its constitution or laws that if its reserves as to all or any class of certificates become impaired, its board of directors, or corresponding body, may require that there shall be paid by the member of the society the amount […]
Section 27-34-23 Benefits – Generally. (a) A society authorized to do business in this state may provide for the payment of: (1) Death benefits in any form; (2) Endowment benefits; (3) Annuity benefits; (4) Temporary or permanent disability benefits as a result of disease or accident; (5) Hospital, medical, or nursing benefits due to sickness […]
Section 27-34-24 Benefits – Lives of children. (a) A society may provide for benefits on the lives of children under the minimum age for adult membership but not greater than 19 years of age at time of application therefor, upon the application of some adult person, as its laws or rules may provide, which benefits […]
Section 27-34-25 Paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, and certificate loans, etc. (a) A society may grant paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and such other options as its laws may permit. As to certificates issued on and after January 1, 1972, a society shall grant at least one paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, except […]
Section 27-34-26 Beneficiaries. (a) The member shall have the right at all times to change the beneficiary, or beneficiaries, in accordance with the constitution, laws, or rules of the society. Every society by its constitution, laws, or rules may limit the scope of beneficiaries and shall provide that no beneficiary shall have or obtain any […]
Section 27-34-27 Exemption of benefits, etc., from attachment, garnishment, or other process. No money or other benefit, charity, relief, or aid to be paid, provided, or rendered by any society shall be liable to attachment, garnishment, or other process or to be seized, taken, appropriated, or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation […]
