Section 83-30-1 - Larger fraternal benefit societies

Any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under the provisions of Section 83-30-73(1) whether incorporated or not, conducted solely for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit, operated on a lodge system with ritualistic form of work, having more than Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) in total annual written premium, having a representative form of government, and which provides benefits in accordance with this chapter, is hereby declared to be a larger fraternal benefit society. Laws, 2001, ch. 362, § 1, eff. 7/1/2001.