Insurance Code section 10990

Any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without capital stock, 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 which makes provision for the payment of benefits in accordance with this chapter, is hereby declared to be a fraternal benefit society.
When used in this chapter, the word “society,” unless otherwise indicated, shall mean fraternal benefit society.

Source: Section 10990, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=INS§ionNum=10990.­ (updated Jan. 1, 1951; accessed Aug. 11, 2025).

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