Texas Insurance Code

§ 885.001 — DEFINITIONS

IN § 885.001Title 6. ORGANIZATION OF INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES · Part E. MUTUAL AND FRATERNAL COMPANIES AND RELATED ENTITIES · Ch. 885. FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"Benefit certificate" means a document issued as written evidence of a benefit contract.

(2)"Benefit contract" means an agreement for provision of benefits authorized by Section 885.301, as that agreement is described by Section 885.306.

(3)"Benefit member" means an adult designated by the laws or rules of a fraternal benefit society as a benefit member under a benefit contract.

(4)"Fraternal benefit society's laws" means a fraternal benefit society's articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws, however designated.

(5)"Lodge" means a subordinate member unit of a fraternal benefit society. The term includes a camp, court, council, or branch.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.