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215 ILCS 5/310.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 922.1)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 310.1.     Suspension, revocation or refusal to renew certificate of  authority.(a) Domestic Societies. When, upon  investigation, the Director  is satisfied that any domestic society transacting business under this  amendatory Act has exceeded its powers or has failed to comply with any  provisions  of this amendatory Act or is conducting business fraudulently or in  a  way hazardous to its members, creditors or the public or is not carrying  out its contracts in good faith, the Director shall notify the society of  his or her findings, stating in writing the grounds of his or her  dissatisfaction, and, after reasonable notice, require the society on a date  named to show cause why its certificate of authority should not be revoked  or suspended or why such society should not be fined as hereinafter  provided or why the Director should not proceed against  the society under  Article XIII  of this Code. If, on the date named in said notice, such  objections have not been removed to the satisfaction of the Director  or if the society does not present good and sufficient reasons why its  authority to transact business in this State should not at that time be  revoked or suspended or why such society should not be fined as  hereinafter provided,  the Director may revoke the authority  of the society to  continue business in this State and proceed against the society under  Article XIII of this Code or suspend such certificate of authority for any  period of time up to, but not to exceed, 2 years; or may by order require  such society to pay to the people of the State of Illinois a penalty in a  sum not exceeding $10,000, and, upon the failure of such  society to pay such penalty within 20 days after the mailing of such  order, postage prepaid, registered and addressed to the last known place  of business of such society, unless such order is stayed by an order of a  court of competent jurisdiction, the Director may revoke or suspend the  license of such society for any period of time up to, but not exceeding, a  period  of 2 years.(b) Foreign or alien societies. The Director shall suspend, revoke or  refuse to renew certificates of authority in accordance with Article VI of this  Code.    (Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 7-1-03.)
215 ILCS 5/311.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 923.1)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 311.1.     Injunction proceedings.(a) Upon the refusal or neglect of  any society to make the annual report, as provided in this amendatory Act, or in  case any such society shall exceed its powers or shall conduct its business  fraudulently or is not carrying out its contracts in good faith or shall  be 30 days in arrears in the payment of death or disability claims,  endowments or annuities after the same have been allowed by the board of  directors or other person or persons whose duty it is to pass upon such  claims and after establishment of the interest and competency of the payee  to receive, receipt and acquit for payment, provided that such claim shall  be approved or disapproved within 60 days after receipt of due proof of  loss or death or, after one year's existence, shall have a membership of  less than 500 or shall determine to discontinue business or shall  fail to comply with any of the provisions of this amendatory Act, the Director shall  immediately commence, or cause to be commenced, an action against such society  under Article XIII of this Code and to enjoin the same from carrying on  any business, and an injunction may be granted, upon proper showing by the  Director, in any circuit court in this State; provided, however, that no  injunction against any society within this State or application for or  appointment of a receiver or action to prevent any society from carrying  on business in this State shall be made or granted by any court except on  the application of the Director and after written notice duly made and served  upon the chief executive officer of such society within this State, or, if  incorporated under the laws of another state, then such notice may be served  by sending the same to the president or secretary of the society by registered  mail at the home office of the society, and a full hearing before such court,  whether the party seeking such relief be the State, member of such society  or any other person whatsoever.(b) If the court shall find that such society so enjoined was in default as  charged and the violation complained of shall have been corrected and the  injunction dissolved, the society may continue in business provided it  shall have satisfied the Director that it has paid the costs of the action.  Any officer, agent or person acting for any society or subordinate body  thereof within this State and who shall transact any business for such  society contrary to the provisions of such injunction or prohibition while  such society shall be so enjoined or prohibited from doing business  pursuant to this amendatory Act shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.    (Source: P.A. 84-303.)
215 ILCS 5/312.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 924.1)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 312.1.     Salaries.     No domestic society shall pay any salary,  compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor  any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than  $40,000 to any person, firm or corporation, unless such payment be  first authorized by the supreme governing body or the board of directors or  corresponding body. No such society shall make any agreement with any of  its officers, trustees or directors or salaried employees whereby it agrees  that for any service rendered or to be rendered he shall receive any  salary, compensation or emolument that will extend beyond a  period of 4 years from the date of such agreement, provided that payment of  an amount not in excess of 20% of the salary of any of its officers,  directors or salaried employees may by written agreement be deferred  beyond such period of 4 years, which agreement may include conditions to  be met by such officers, directors or salaried employees before payment  will be made, and provided further that a domestic society may enter  into contracts with its producer for the payment of renewal commissions. No  such society shall enter into a special contract which will compensate any  officer, trustee or director based on a percentage of premiums collected by  the society or on a percentage of the entire insurance business of the  society. No such society shall grant any pension to any officer, trustee or  director thereof or to any member of his family after his death except  that it may provide a pension pursuant to the terms of a uniform retirement  plan adopted by the board of directors.    (Source: P.A. 84-303.)
215 ILCS 5/313.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 925.1)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 313.1.     Licensing of producers.(a) Except as otherwise provided  in this Section, producers of societies shall be subject to the provisions  of Article XXXI of this Code.(b) No examination or license shall be required of any regular salaried  officer, employee or member of a licensed society who devotes substantially  all of his or her services to activities other than the solicitation of  fraternal benefit contracts from the public and who receives for the  solicitation of such contracts no commission or other compensation  directly dependent upon the amount of business obtained.(c) Any producer, representative or member of a society who devotes or  intends to devote less than 50% of such person's time to the  solicitation and procurement of benefit contracts for such society shall be  exempt from the requirements of subsection (a). Any person who in the  preceding calendar year has solicited and procured life insurance contracts  on behalf of any society in an amount of insurance in excess of $100,000  or, in the case of any other kind or kinds of insurance which the society  might write, on the persons of more than 25 individuals and who has  received or will receive a commission or other compensation therefor shall  be presumed to be devoting, or intending to devote, 50% of time  to the solicitation or  procurement of benefit contracts for such society.    (Source: P.A. 84- 303.)
215 ILCS 5/314.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 926.1)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 314.1.     Unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive  acts and practices.  Every society authorized to do business in this State  shall be subject to the provisions of Article XXVI of this Code, provided,  however, that nothing in such provisions shall be construed as applying to  or affecting the right of any society to determine its eligibility  requirements for membership or be construed as applying to or affecting  the offering of benefits exclusively to members or persons eligible for  membership in the society by a subsidiary corporation or affiliated  organization of the society.    (Source: P.A. 84-303.)
215 ILCS 5/315.2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 927.2)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.2.     Service of process.(a) Every society authorized to do  business in this State shall appoint in writing the Director and each  successor in office to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful  process in any action or proceeding against it shall be served and shall  agree in such writing that any lawful process against it which is served on  said attorney shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served  upon the society and that the authority shall continue in force so long as  any liability remains outstanding in this State. Copies of such  appointment, certified by said Director, shall be deemed sufficient evidence  thereof and shall be admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as  the original thereof might be admitted.(b) Service shall be made by delivering to and leaving with the Director  duplicate copies of such process with payment of the fee prescribed by this  Code and the service thereof shall constitute sufficient service upon the  society. When legal process against a society is served upon the Director,  the Director shall forthwith forward one of the duplicate copies, by  certified or registered mail prepaid, to the society. No such service shall  require a society to file its answer, pleading or defense in less than  30 days from the date of mailing the copy of the service to a society  unless otherwise ordered by the court. Legal process shall not be served  upon a society except in the manner herein provided.    (Source: P.A. 84-303.)
215 ILCS 5/315.3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 927.3)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.3.     Review.     The provisions of the Administrative Review Law,  and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted  pursuant thereto shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the  judicial review of final administrative decisions of the Department.    (Source: P.A. 84-303.)
215 ILCS 5/315.4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 927.4)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.4.     Penalties.(a) Any person who willfully makes a false or  fraudulent statement in or relating to an application for membership or for  the purpose of obtaining money from, or a benefit in, any society shall upon  conviction be fined not less than $200 nor more than $10,000 or be subject to   imprisonment in the county jail not less than 30 days nor more than one  year, or both.(b) Any person who willfully makes a false or fraudulent statement in any  verified report or declaration under oath required or authorized by this  amendatory Act, or of any material fact or thing contained in a sworn statement  concerning the death or disability of an insured for the purpose of  procuring payment of a benefit named in the certificate, shall be guilty of  perjury and shall be subject to the penalties therefor prescribed by law.(c) Any person who solicits membership for, or in any manner assists in  procuring membership in, any society not licensed to do business in this  State shall upon conviction be fined not less than $100 nor more  than $400.(d) Any person guilty of a willful violation of, or neglect or refusal  to comply with, the provisions of this amendatory Act for which a penalty is  not  otherwise prescribed shall upon conviction be subject to a fine  not exceeding $10,000.    (Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 7-1-03.)
215 ILCS 5/315.5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 927.5)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.5.     Exemption of certain societies.(a) Nothing contained in  this amendatory Act shall be so construed as to affect or apply to:(1) grand or subordinate lodges of societies, orders     or associations now doing business in this State which provide benefits exclusively through local or subordinate lodges;(2) orders, societies or associations which admit to     membership only persons engaged in one or more crafts or hazardous occupations, in the same or similar lines of business, insuring only their own members and their families, and the ladies' societies or ladies' auxiliaries to such orders, societies or associations;(3) domestic societies which limit their membership     to employees of a particular city or town, designated firm, business house or corporation which provide for a death benefit of not more than $700 or disability benefits of not more than $650 to any person in any one year, or both; or(4) domestic societies or associations of a purely     religious, charitable or benevolent description which provide for a death benefit of not more than $400 or for disability benefits of not more than $350 to any one person in any one year, or both.(b) Any such society or association described in subsections (a)(3) or  (a)(4) supra which provides for death or disability benefits for which  benefit certificates are issued and any such society or association  included in subsection (a)(4) which has more than 1000 members  shall not be exempted from the provisions of this amendatory Act but shall  comply with all requirements thereof.(c) No society which, by the provisions of this Section, is exempt from  the requirements of this amendatory Act, except any society  described in  subsection (a)(2) supra, shall give or allow, or promise to give or allow,  to any person any compensation for procuring new members.(d) Every society which provides for benefits in case of death or  disability resulting solely from accident and which does not obligate  itself to pay natural death or sick benefits shall have all of the  privileges and be subject to all the applicable provisions and regulations  of this amendatory Act except that the provisions thereof relating to medical  examination, valuations of benefit certificates and incontestability  shall not apply to such society.(e) The Director may require from any society or association, by  examination or otherwise, such information as will enable  the Director to  determine whether such society or association is exempt from the provisions  of this amendatory Act.(f) Societies  exempted under the provisions of this Section shall  also be exempt from all other provisions of the insurance laws of this State.    (Source: P.A. 86-187.)
215 ILCS 5/315.6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 927.6)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.6. Application of other Code provisions. Unless otherwise  provided in this amendatory Act, every fraternal benefit society shall be  governed  by this amendatory Act and shall be exempt from all other provisions of the  insurance laws of this State not only in governmental relations with the  State but for every other purpose, except for those provisions specified in  this amendatory Act and except as follows:(a) Sections 1, 2, 2.1, 3.1, 117, 118, 132, 132.1,     132.2, 132.3, 132.4, 132.5, 132.6, 132.7, 133, 134, 136, 138, 139, 140, 141, 141.01, 141.1, 141.2, 141.3, 143, 143c, 144.1, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154.5, 154.6, 154.7, 154.8, 155, 155.04, 155.05, 155.06, 155.07, 155.08 and 408 of this Code; and(b) Articles VIII 1/2, XII, XII 1/2, XIII, XXIV, and     XXVIII of this Code. (Source: P.A. 98-814, eff. 1-1-15.)
215 ILCS 5/315.7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 927.7)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.7.     Severability.     If any provision of this amendatory Act or the  application of such provision to any circumstance is held invalid, the  remainder of the amendatory Act or the application of the provision to other  circumstances shall not be affected thereby.    (Source: P.A. 84-303.)
215 ILCS 5/315.9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XVII - Fraternal Benefit Societies

(215 ILCS 5/315.9)(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)Sec. 315.9. Voluntary dissolution.   Upon application to the Director, a domestic society may request that it be dissolved and that its existence be terminated.  The  application shall demonstrate that the applicant has satisfied its members' certificate obligations or that it has transferred such obligations to another organization, domestic or foreign, by means of assumption or bulk reinsurance or otherwise, and that the domestic society's supreme governing body has approved the termination and dissolution.  The application shall contain any other information required by the Director. Any limitation related to reinsurance by a domestic society shall not apply to reinsurance entered into in conjunction with the transfer of members' certificate obligations as a part of a voluntary dissolution.  Upon approval of the application by the Director, the domestic society shall be deemed dissolved and its existence terminated as of the date set forth in the application.  (Source: P.A. 98-814, eff. 1-1-15.)
215 ILCS 5/Art. XIX heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XIX - Burial Societies

 ARTICLE XIX.      BURIAL SOCIETIES
215 ILCS 5/338
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XIX - Burial Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 950)Sec. 338.     Scope of  Article.(1) This Article shall apply to:(a) all societies organized or operating, prior to     the effective date of this Code, under an Act entitled "An Act relating to burial insurance societies", approved June 10, 1911;(b) any person, firm, corporation, society, or     association of individuals engaged in the business of providing a burial benefit or award for the payment, in whole or in part, of funeral, burial or other expenses relating to deceased members, certificate holders or subscribers, by the levying of assessments, or by the charging of a fee or premium.(2) Each person, firm, corporation, society or association mentioned in  subsection (1) is referred to in this Article as a "burial society" and  subscribers to and certificate holders of such a society are referred to in  this Article as "members."    (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
215 ILCS 5/339
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XIX - Burial Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 951)Sec. 339.         Present  authorized burial societies may transact business.Every society organized prior to the effective date of this amendatory  Act of 1959 and which society on that date was transacting business under a  certificate of authority issued by the Director may continue to transact  such business subject to the provisions of this article, but except as  provided in Section 336a no person, firm, corporation, society or  association shall enter business as a burial society after the effective  date of this amendatory Act of 1959.    (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1150.)
215 ILCS 5/340
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 215 - INSURANCE|215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.|Article XIX - Burial Societies

 (from Ch. 73, par. 952)Sec. 340.         Article of  Incorporation.  The articles of incorporation of a burial society shall state:(a) The corporate name which shall not resemble the name of any existing  society or corporation organized under the laws of this State or authorized  to transact business therein as to mislead the public or cause confusion,  the purpose for which it is formed and the place in this State where its  principal office is located;(b) The mode and manner in which the corporate powers of the society  shall be exercised; the manner of electing directors; the number of  directors which shall not be less than 3 nor more than 7; terms of office  of directors which shall be not more than 4 years; the manner of electing  officers and filling vacancies and such other particulars as may be  necessary to explain and manifest the object and purpose of the society and  the manner in which it is to be conducted.A copy of the by-laws and forms of applications for members and a copy  of all forms of policies or certificates, literature and advertisements  shall be filed with the Director.The Director shall examine the articles of incorporation and other  papers so filed with him and if he finds no objection thereto he shall  submit the articles of incorporation to the Attorney General for  examination and if found by the Attorney General to be in accordance with  the provisions of this Code and not inconsistent with the laws and  constitution of this State and of the United States, he shall certify to  the same and deliver it back to the Director who shall cause the articles  to be recorded in his records and issue to the incorporators a certified  copy thereof, and thereupon such incorporators and their associates shall  become and be a body corporate with the power to sue and be sued, contract  and be contracted with, adopt by-laws not in conflict with the provisions  of this Code, adopt a seal and do such other acts, subject to the  provisions and restrictions of this Code, as shall be needful to accomplish  the purposes of its organization. The management of the affairs of the  society shall at all times be vested in the board of directors.    (Source: P.A. 82-498.)