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Ohio Rev Code § 3919.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.27 | Life and Accident Business on Assessment Plan.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any corporation, company, or association described in section 3919.21 of the Revised Code which is transacting business in this state is subject only to sections 3919.01 to 3919.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, which provide for the organization of mutual protective associations, and may transact in this state the business of life or accident or life and accident insurance on the assessment plan, for the purpose of mutual protection and relief of its members, and for the payment of stipulated sums of money to the families, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns of the deceased members of such corporation, company, or association as the members may direct, notwithstanding such corporation, company, or association may have been organized on the assessment plan and authorized by the laws governing it to issue policies insuring lives on the plan of assessment upon surviving members without limitation.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.28 | Action Brought - Service of Summons.

Effective: January 9, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly|An action may be brought against a corporation, company, or association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code, or against any foreign corporation, company, or association described in section 3919.21 of the Revised Code doing business in this state, in any county where such cause of action arises, and summons may be issued and service had as provided by law for the issuance and service of such writs in the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.29 | Restrictions on Issuance of Policies.

Effective: March 31, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 245 - 124th General Assembly|No corporation, company, or association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code shall issue a certificate or policy to any person, until such person has first been subjected to a thorough medical examination by a physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife and found to be a good risk, nor shall it issue a certificate or policy to any person above the age of sixty-five years or under the age of fifteen years. Any written documentation of the physical examination shall be completed by the individual who conducted the examination.This section, in respect to the age and medical examination of persons to whom certificates or policies may issue, does not apply to such corporations, companies, or associations doing purely accident business.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.30 | Expenses.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The expenses of a corporation, company, or association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code must be met by fixed annual payments, or by assessments made and designated to be for such expenses; such assessments in no case shall be made or become a part of assessments to pay a loss by death. No part of the mortuary fund in any case shall be used to pay expenses.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.31 | Organization of Accident and Health Insurance Companies.

Effective: October 23, 1991|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 16 - 119th General Assembly|Companies consisting of five or more citizens of this state may be organized under sections 3919.01 to 3919.38 of the Revised Code for the special purpose of insuring against accidental personal injury and loss of life sustained while traveling by railroad, steamboat, or other mode of conveyance, and against accidental loss of life and personal injury sustained by accident of any description whatever, and against expenses and loss of time occasioned by injury or sickness. The insurance may be on the terms and conditions, and for the periods of time, and confined to the countries, localities, and persons, that may at any time be provided for in the bylaws of the company.This section does not prohibit accident and health insurance companies, organized under this section, from issuing life insurance when their surplus equals one hundred thousand dollars or more, provided that when such accident or accident and sickness insurance companies have become qualified to issue life insurance, they shall conform to and be controlled by Chapters 3911. and 3915. of the Revised Code, in the issuance of the life insurance.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.32 | Restriction Against New Accident and Health Companies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No corporation, company, or association shall be organized in this state or admitted to do business in this state to transact the business of sickness and accident insurance, as provided in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code, or accident insurance, as provided in section 3919.35 of the Revised Code.This section does not prevent the renewal of the certificates of authority of companies authorized to do such business in this state prior to May 26, 1939.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.33 | Expenses - Separation of Funds.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The expenses of corporations, companies, or associations referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code shall be met by fixed annual payments, payable quarterly or otherwise, or by assessments on the members, payable as provided in the bylaws. On either plan there may be included, in such payments or assessments, a certain per cent thereof, to be fixed by the bylaws, which when collected must be credited on the books of the company to the expense fund, and the residue of such payments or assessments must be credited to the fund to pay losses and create a reserve or guarantee fund for the payment of losses and liabilities. Such funds must be kept separate and never shall be interchanged or used for purposes other than those for which they were respectively collected; except that funds collected, but not required for expenses, may be transferred to the fund for payment of losses or the reserve or guarantee fund. The assessed member shall be notified at the time of the collection of each payment, the per cent thereof that is collected to pay expenses, and the per cent thereof that is collected to pay losses and create a guarantee fund.This section does not prevent the company from distributing to certificate holders the surplus in the accident fund and the surplus arising from the reserve on lapsed and canceled certificates, as provided by the bylaws of the company.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.34 | Bond.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A company organized under section 3919.31 of the Revised Code, before engaging in business, must execute a bond in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the state, with security to the acceptance and approval of the superintendent of insurance, for the use and benefit of all persons holding policies or certificates in such company. Said bond shall be conditioned that any such company shall credit upon its books all moneys received by it under this section and section 3919.33 of the Revised Code, that it will keep the funds separate and not use or interchange them for purposes other than those for which they were respectively collected, and that it will apply and pay out such funds to and for the purposes provided for in section 3919.33 of the Revised Code. When so executed and approved, the bond shall be deposited with and held by the superintendent.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.35 | Bond of Accident Insurance Only Company.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A corporation, company, or association which is organized for the purpose of doing a purely accident insurance business, and which creates a reserve or guarantee fund from the premiums collected by assessments or otherwise, as provided in its bylaws, is not required to deposit a bond of one hundred thousand dollars; but the treasurer of such organization, before it commences business, shall deposit with the superintendent of insurance a bond with approved securities, to his acceptance, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the use and purposes provided in section 3919.34 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.36 | Investment of Reserve Fund.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every corporation, company, or association referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code shall invest, as provided by law for domestic life insurance companies, so much of the reserve or guarantee fund, in excess of ten thousand dollars, as will equal at least two and one-half per cent of all premiums or assessments collected from policies or certificates in force, on the last days of June and December of each year, until such reserve or guarantee fund is equal to two dollars for every five thousand dollars of insurance in force. Securities for such reserve shall be deposited with the superintendent of insurance on the last days of June and December of each year, or within thirty days thereafter, to be held by him for the benefit and protection of policyholders or certificate holders.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.37 | Release of Security.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a corporation, company, or association referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code at any time causes all of its unexpired policies or certificates to be paid, canceled, or reinsured, and all its liabilities under such policies or certificates to be extinguished thereby, or to be assumed by some other responsible company authorized to do business in this state, the superintendent of insurance shall deliver to it the securities required by section 3919.36 of the Revised Code, on application of such company, verified by the oath of its president or secretary, and if the superintendent is satisfied by an examination of its books and officers, under oath, that all of its policies or certificates are so paid, canceled, extinguished, or reinsured.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.38 | Annual Statement by Accident Insurance Company.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Annually, before the first day of March, every corporation, company, or association referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code shall file with the superintendent of insurance a statement under the oath of its officers showing its transactions for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December preceding, and its condition on that day, in the form prescribed by the superintendent.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.39 | Mutual Benefit Societies Excepted.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 3919.16 to 3919.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to any association of religious or secret societies, or to any class of mechanics, express, telegraph, or railroad employees, or of ex-union soldiers, formed for the mutual benefit of the member thereof and their families or blood relatives exclusively, or for purely charitable purposes.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.40 | Mutual Benefit Societies Subject to Insurance Laws.

Effective: August 8, 1991|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 137 - 119th General Assembly|Any association or class described in section 3919.39 of the Revised Code which desires to become subject to sections 3919.16 to 3919.19 of the Revised Code, may file with the superintendent of insurance notice thereof in writing, signed by its president and attested by its secretary. Thereupon such association or class shall become subject to such sections. The superintendent immediately must provide such an association or class with proper blanks for furnishing the statement of its condition required by section 3919.16 of the Revised Code, and it shall make such report within sixty days after it has received such blanks, and annually thereafter as in the case of other insurance companies, which report shall be included by the superintendent in his annual report, the same as the reports of other companies, and shall be subject to the fees prescribed by law in like cases payable by life insurance companies.
Ohio Rev Code § 3919.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3919 | Mutual Protective Insurance Upon Persons|Section 3919.41 | Bond of Treasurer.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The treasurer of any association or class described in section 3919.39 of the Revised Code which avails itself of the benefits of sections 3919.16 to 3919.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall give bond in the manner provided for treasurers of mutual benefit companies, such bond to be conditioned, approved, and renewed as by such treasurer.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.01 | Fraternal Benefit Society Definitions.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|As used in this chapter:(A) "Benefit contract" means an agreement, as described in division (A) of section 3921.19 of the Revised Code, under which a fraternal benefit society agrees to provide any benefit set forth in division (A) of section 3921.16 of the Revised Code.(B) "Benefit member" means an adult member of a fraternal benefit society who is designated by the laws or rules of the society to be eligible for benefits under a benefit contract.(C) "Certificate" means the document issued as written evidence of the benefit contract.(D) "Laws," unless the context indicates otherwise, means the articles of incorporation, charter, constitution, and bylaws, however designated, of a fraternal benefit society.(E) "Lodge" means the subordinate member units of a fraternal benefit society, known as camps, courts, councils, branches, or by any other designation.(F) "Premium" means the premiums, rates, dues, or other required contributions payable under the certificate.(G) "Rules," unless the context indicates otherwise, means the rules, regulations, or resolutions adopted by the supreme governing body or board of directors of a fraternal benefit society that are intended to have general application to all of the members of the society.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.02 | Fraternal Benefit Society Requirements.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under division (A)(2) of section 3921.37 of the Revised Code 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 providing benefits in accordance with this chapter, is hereby declared to be a fraternal benefit society.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.03 | Lodge System.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|(A) For purposes of section 3921.02 of the Revised Code, a society is operating on the lodge system if it has a supreme governing body and subordinate lodges into which members are elected, initiated, or admitted in accordance with its laws, rules, and ritual. The subordinate lodges shall be required by the laws of the society to hold regular meetings at least once in each month in furtherance of the purposes of the society.(B) A society may organize and operate lodges for children under the minimum age for adult membership. Such children shall not be required to be members of local lodges, nor shall they be given a voice or vote in the management of the society.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.04 | Representative Form of Government.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|For purposes of section 3921.02 of the Revised Code, a fraternal benefit society has a representative form of government if all of the following apply:(A) The society has a supreme governing body constituted in either of the following ways:(1) As an assembly composed of delegates elected directly by the members or at intermediate assemblies or conventions of members or their representatives, together with other delegates as may be prescribed by the society's laws. A society may provide for election of delegates by mail. The elected delegates shall constitute a majority in number, and shall not have less than a majority of the votes and not less than the number of votes required to amend the society's laws. The assembly shall be elected and shall meet at least once every four years, and shall elect a board of directors to conduct the business of the society between meetings of the assembly. Vacancies on the board occurring between elections shall be filled in the manner prescribed by the society's laws.(2) As a board composed of persons elected by the members, either directly or by their representatives in intermediate assemblies, and any other persons prescribed by the society's laws. A society may provide for election of the board by mail. Persons elected to the board shall constitute a majority in number and not less than the number of votes required to amend the society's laws. Terms of office shall not exceed four years. The board shall meet at least quarterly to conduct the business of the society.Vacancies on the board occurring between elections shall be filled in the manner prescribed by the society's laws. A person filling the unexpired term of an elected board member shall be considered an elected member.(B) The officers of the society are elected by the supreme governing body or the board of directors.(C) Only benefit members are eligible for election to the supreme governing body, the board of directors, or any intermediate assembly.(D) Each voting member has one vote, and no vote may be cast by proxy.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.05 | Purpose of Fraternal Benefit Society.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|(A) A fraternal benefit society shall operate for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries by providing any of the benefits set forth in section 3921.16 of the Revised Code, and by operating for social, intellectual, educational, charitable, benevolent, moral, fraternal, patriotic, or religious purposes for the benefit of its members and any other persons as determined by the society. Such purposes may be carried out either directly by the society or indirectly through subsidiary corporations or affiliated organizations.(B) A fraternal benefit society may do any of the following:(1) Adopt laws and rules for the government of the society, the admission of its members, and the management of its affairs;(2) Amend or otherwise alter its laws and rules;(3) Take any other action necessary and incidental to carrying out the objectives and purposes of the society.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.06 | Membership Rights.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|(A) A fraternal benefit society shall specify all of the following in its laws or rules:(1) Eligibility standards for each membership class, provided that if benefits are provided on the lives of children, the minimum age for adult membership shall be set at not less than fifteen years of age and not greater than twenty-one years of age;(2) The process for admission to membership for each membership class;(3) The rights and privileges of each membership class, provided that only benefit members shall have the right to vote on the management of the insurance affairs of the society.(B) A society may admit social members who have no voice or vote in the management of the insurance affairs of the society.(C) Membership rights in a society are personal to the member and are not assignable.
Ohio Rev Code § 3921.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 39 | Insurance|Chapter 3921 | Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 3921.07 | Organization of Society.

Effective: January 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 468 - 121st General Assembly|(A) The principal office of any domestic fraternal benefit society shall be located in this state. The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held in any state, district, province, or territory in which the society has at least one subordinate lodge, or in any other location determined by the supreme governing body, and all business transacted at such meetings is as valid in all respects as if the meetings were held in this state.(B) The minutes of the proceedings of the supreme governing body and of the board of directors shall be recorded in the English language.(C) A society may provide in its laws for an official publication in which any notice, report, or statement required by law to be given to its members, including notice of election, may be published. Any such notice, report, or statement shall be printed conspicuously in the publication. If the records of a society show that two or more members have the same mailing address, an official publication mailed to one member is deemed to be mailed to all members that have the same address unless one of those members requests a separate copy.(D) Not later than the first day of June of each year, each society shall either mail to each benefit member or publish in the society's official publication a synopsis of the society's annual statement. The synopsis shall include an explanation of the facts concerning the condition of the society as disclosed in the annual statement.(E) A society may set forth in its laws or rules a grievance or complaint procedure for its members.