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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="8-421" title_number="8" title_name="Entities That Act as Insurers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Fraternal Benefit Societies">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A society may admit to membership an individual who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is older than 14 1/2 years old; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>gives the society evidence of insurability acceptable to the society.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A minor who is admitted to the society is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>bound by the terms of the application and certificate and by the laws and rules of the society; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>entitled to the rights and privileges of membership as though the individual were an adult at the time of application.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A society also may admit general or social members who do not have a voice or vote in the management of the society’s insurance affairs.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The members of a grand, supreme, or subordinate lodge or branch of a society are not personally liable for payment of a benefit provided by the society.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A society shall specify in its laws or rules the rights and privileges of each membership class.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Membership rights in a society are personal to the member and not assignable.</text>
  </level>
</section>
