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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="8-467" title_number="8" title_name="Entities That Act as Insurers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Fraternal Benefit Societies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A society doing insurance business in the State may not make or allow unfair discrimination between insured members of the same class and equal life expectancy in:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the premiums charged for certificates of insurance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the dividends or other benefits payable on certificates of insurance; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any other terms and conditions of the contracts the society makes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a society;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a person acting for the society;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an insurance producer that acts on behalf of a fraternal benefit society; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a person acting for an insurance producer that acts on behalf of a fraternal benefit society.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not offer, promise, allow, give, set off, or pay, directly or indirectly, any valuable consideration or inducement to or for insurance on any risk authorized to be taken by a society that is not specified in the certificate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A society member may not receive or accept, directly or indirectly:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a rebate of all or part of a premium payable on a certificate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a rebate of a fraternal benefit agent’s commission on a premium payable on a certificate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any favor, advantage, or share in the dividends or other benefits to accrue on the insurance contract; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>any other valuable consideration or inducement not specified in the insurance contract.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
