The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-18
Public
General
Laws.
SESSION 1894.
LAWS CONTINUED.
CHAPTER 295.


new additional sections after Section
143D, to be known as Sections One
Hundred and Forty-Three E, F, G, H,
IL, K, L, NJ, N, o, P, @, R.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Article
Twenty-Three of the Code of Public
General Laws, title Corporations" sub
title Insurance Department" be
amended by adding subtitle, desig-
mated "Fraternal Societies, Orders or
Associations. And also adding fifteen
new sections to follow Immediately after
Section One Hundred and Forty-Three D
of said article, to be designated as Sec
tons 143E, 143F, 143G, 143H, 143I, 143J ,
143K, 143L, 143M, 143N, 1870, 143P,
1880, 143R, to read as to said respective
sections as follows:
Fraternal Beneficiary Societies, Orders
or Associations.
Sec. 143 E. A fraternal beneficiary
association is hereby declared to be a
corporation, society or voluntary asso-
citation, formed or organized and carried
on for the sole benefit of its members
and their benefciaries, and not for pro-
fit. Each such association shall have a
lodge system, with ritualistic form of
work and representative form of gov
eminent, and shall make provision only
for the payment of benefits in case of
sickness, disability or death of its mem
bers, subject to their compliance with
its constitution and laws. The fund
from which the payment of such bene-
fits shall be made, and the fund from
which the expenses of such association
shall be betrayed, shall be derived from
fees, assessments and dues collected
from its members. Payment of death
benefits may be made only to the widow
children, grandchildren, mother, father,
brother, sister, grandparents aunt, uncle,
niece, nephew, first cousin, next OF kin,
who would.be distributes of the mem
ber's personal estate if he died interstate,
to affianced husband or affianced wife of
the member, or to persons dependent
upon the member for food lodging, cloth
ing or education, and to none ether.
Provided that payment can only be
made to beneficiary by reason of de-.
tendency when it is established by
documentary proof to the satisfaction of
the executive officers of such association,
that the fact of such dependency as here
in provided existed at the members
death and no benefit certificate shall issue
designating beneficiary by way of de-
tendency unless such dependency shall
be fully set forth in writing and estab-
lished by documentary proof to the sat
isfaction of said executive officers, prior
to the issuance thereof, a benefit shall not
be assignable except to the beneticiaries
above specified and then only by the
consent of such association, attested by
its seal and the signature of its supreme
secretary and supreme executive officer,
but the member may surrender his
Benefit Certificate and have new one
issued to any one or more OF the bene-
ficiaries. as above specified, in the man.
ner provided by the constitution and
laws of such association. Such associa-
ton shall be governed by the provisions
of Sections ABE to Sections 143R (both
inclusive) of this Article, and shall be
exempt from the provisions of the insur-
ance laws of the State, and no law here
after passed shall apply to them unless
they be expressly designated therein,
provided that any corporations or asso-
Citations, orders or societies operating on
the lodge system and having ritualistic
work in their lodges, councils or socie-
ties whose business it is in whole or in
part to pay at the expiration of a fixed
period of not less than five years,
sum not exceeding the maximum
amount ndlueu III IllclI CSlIlnCdtSo
or paying dividend withdrawal sur
render or old age benefits, or paying
such certificates at the expiration of life
expectancy, may conduct their business
in this State, under the provisions gov
erning fraternal beneficiary societies,
orders or associations, with this excep-
ton that no such corporation or associa-
ton, shall be permitted to begin, do or
continue business in this State until it
shall have first deposited with the In
surance Commissioner of this State the
sum of ten Thousand dollars in dividend
bearing securities, satisfactory to said
Commissioners, as a guarantee for the
payment of certificates issued by it,
which deposit shall be constantly main
tanned at that amount. Provided, how
ever, that any such corporation or asso-
citation organized under the laws of any
other State, which may have, under the
laws of the State of which it is citizen,
a deposit of equal value for the purpose
herein mentioned, shall, upon proof of
the existence of such deposit, not be re-
ouired to make the same with the Insur-
ance Commissioner ofthis State.
Sec. 143F. Any such association COM
ing within the description of Fraternal
Beneficiary Association, as set forth In