58-37A-1. Fraternal benefit society defined.Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under the provisions of subdivision 58-37A-38(2), 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 a representative form of government, and which provides benefits in accordance with this chapter, is a fraternal benefit society for the purposes of this chapter. Source: SL 1990, ch 410, §1.
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