§ 10990

California Insurance Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without capital stock, 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 makes provision for the payment of benefits in accordance with this chapter, is hereby declared to be a fraternal benefit society.

When used in this chapter, the word “society,” unless otherwise indicated, shall mean fraternal benefit society.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1193.)

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