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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="8-418" title_number="8" title_name="Entities That Act as Insurers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Fraternal Benefit Societies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A society may adopt and amend laws to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>govern the society;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>admit society members;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>manage society affairs; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>fix and readjust the rates of society members.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The laws of the society may provide that subordinate lodges or branches and their officers and members may not waive any provisions of the laws of the society.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A provision adopted in accordance with this subsection is binding on the society and each member and beneficiary of a member.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as prohibited by this subtitle, a society has any other power necessary and incidental to accomplish the purposes for which it is established.</text>
  </level>
</section>
