23-74-101. Fraternal benefit society defined.

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23-74-101. Fraternal benefit society defined. Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under § 23-74-704(a)(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 hereby declared to be a fraternal benefit society.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-74-101

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23-74-704. Exemption of certain societies.

23-74-704. Exemption of certain societies. (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to affect or apply to: (1) Grand or subordinate lodges of societies, orders, or associations now doing business in this state which provide benefits exclusively through local or subordinate lodges; (2) Orders, societies, or associations which admit to membership only persons engaged in one (1) or more crafts or hazardous occupations, in the same or similar lines of business, insuring only their own members and their families, and the ladies' societies or ladies' auxiliaries to such orders, societies, or associations; (3) Domestic societies which limit their memberships to employees of a particular city or town, designated firm, business house, or corporation which provide for a death benefit of not more than four hundred dollars ($400) or disability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars ($350) to any person in any one (1) year, or both; or (4) Domestic societies or associations of a purely religious, charitable, or benevolent description, which provide for a death benefit of not more than four hundred dollars ($400) or for disability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars ($350) to any person in any one (1) year, or both. (b) Any such society or association described in subdivision (a)(3) or subdivision (a)(4) of this section which provides for death or disability benefits for which benefit certificates are issued, and any such society or association included in subdivision (a)(4) of this section which has more than one thousand (1,000) members, shall not be exempted from the provisions of this chapter but shall comply with all requirements thereof. (c) No society which, by the provisions of this section, is exempt from t

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-74-704

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