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Tex. Ins. Code § 885.051 (2026)

Fraternal Benefit Society Defined

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Sec. 885.051. FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY DEFINED. A corporation, society, order, or voluntary association is a fraternal benefit society if it:

(1) has a lodge system and a representative form of government or limits its membership to a secret fraternity that has a lodge system and a representative form of government;

(2) is organized and operated solely for the mutual benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit;

(3) does not have capital stock; and

(4) provides for the payment of benefits in accordance with Section 885.301.

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

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2018–2018 · leading case: the Episcopal Church, the Local Episcopal Parties, the Local Episcopal Congregations, & the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori v. Franklin Salazar & Intervening Congregations, 547 S.W.3d 353 (Tex. App. 2018).

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the Episcopal Church, the Local Episcopal Parties, the Local Episcopal Congregations, & the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori v. Franklin Salazar & Intervening Congregations, 547 S.W.3d 353 (Tex. App. 2018). “See Tex. Ins. Code Ann. § 885.051 (West 2009) (defining “fraternal benefit society” in part as a corporation, society, order, or voluntary association that has a lodge system and representative form of government, with or without limiting its membership to a secret fraternity);…”

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