Colorado Revised Statutes

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 10-14-401 (2026)

Benefits

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(1) A society may provide the following contractual benefits as authorized by the certificate of authority issued:

(a) Death benefits;

(b) Endowment benefits;

(d) Temporary or permanent disability benefits;

(e) Hospital, medical, or nursing benefits;

(f) Monument or tombstone benefits to the memory of deceased members; and

(g) Such other benefits as authorized for life insurers and which are not inconsistent with this article.

(2) A society shall specify in its rules those persons who may be issued, or covered by, the contractual benefits in subsection (1) of this section, consistent with providing benefits to members and their dependents. A society may provide benefits on the lives of children under the minimum age for adult membership upon application of an adult person.

Source: L. 93: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 597, § 1, effective July 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 10-14-105 as it existed prior to 1993.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1996–1996 · leading case: Colorado Dep't of Revenue v. Woodmen of the World, 919 P.2d 806 (Colo. 1996).

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Colorado Dep't of Revenue v. Woodmen of the World, 919 P.2d 806 (Colo. 1996). · cites it 3× “A fraternal benefit society is defined as follows: 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,…”

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