O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 33-15-1 (2019)
Description of fraternal benefit society
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 33-15-123, 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 declared to be a fraternal benefit society.
History
Code 1981, § 33-15-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1744, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2002–2002 · leading case: Lomax v. Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc'y, 228 F. Supp. 2d 1360 (N.D. Ga. 2002).
Lomax v. Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc'y, 228 F. Supp. 2d 1360 (N.D. Ga. 2002). “As an initial matter, with respect to the facts of this case, the Court recognizes that, as a Fraternal Benefit Society, Defendant is governed by O.C.G.A. § 33-15-1, et seq., and is generally exempt from Georgia insurance laws unless the particular insurance law is expressly…”
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