Texas Insurance Code
§ 885.004 — INAPPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN SOCIETIES
IN § 885.004Title 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
Statute text
View on source(a)Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter does not apply to:
(1)a grand or subordinate lodge of Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, or the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics;
(2)a society that limits its membership to those engaged in one or more hazardous occupations in the same or similar lines of business;
(3)a society that does not issue benefit certificates;
(4)an association of local lodges of a society engaged in business in this state on July 1, 1913, that provides:
(A)death benefits of not more than $500 to any one individual;
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.