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...No corporation, company, or association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code shall issue a certificate or policy to any person, until such person has first been subjected to a thorough medical examination by a physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife and found to be a good risk, nor shall it issue a certificate or policy...

...The expenses of a corporation, company, or association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code must be met by fixed annual payments, or by assessments made and designated to be for such expenses; such assessments in no case shall be made or become a part of assessments to pay a loss by death. No part of the mortuary fund in any case shall be used to pay expenses.

...Companies consisting of five or more citizens of this state may be organized under sections 3919.01 to 3919.38 of the Revised Code for the special purpose of insuring against accidental personal injury and loss of life sustained while traveling by railroad, steamboat, or other mode of conveyance, and against accidental loss of life and personal injury sustained by accident of any description whatever, and against exp...

...No corporation, company, or association shall be organized in this state or admitted to do business in this state to transact the business of sickness and accident insurance, as provided in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code, or accident insurance, as provided in section 3919.35 of the Revised Code. This section does not prevent the renewal of the certificates of authority of companies authorized to do such busines...

...The expenses of corporations, companies, or associations referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code shall be met by fixed annual payments, payable quarterly or otherwise, or by assessments on the members, payable as provided in the bylaws. On either plan there may be included, in such payments or assessments, a certain per cent thereof, to be fixed by the bylaws, which when collected must be credited on the b...

...A company organized under section 3919.31 of the Revised Code, before engaging in business, must execute a bond in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the state, with security to the acceptance and approval of the superintendent of insurance, for the use and benefit of all persons holding policies or certificates in such company. Said bond shall be conditioned that any such company shall credit upon its books ...

...A corporation, company, or association which is organized for the purpose of doing a purely accident insurance business, and which creates a reserve or guarantee fund from the premiums collected by assessments or otherwise, as provided in its bylaws, is not required to deposit a bond of one hundred thousand dollars; but the treasurer of such organization, before it commences business, shall deposit with the superinte...

...Every corporation, company, or association referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code shall invest, as provided by law for domestic life insurance companies, so much of the reserve or guarantee fund, in excess of ten thousand dollars, as will equal at least two and one-half per cent of all premiums or assessments collected from policies or certificates in force, on the last days of June and December of each y...

...If a corporation, company, or association referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code at any time causes all of its unexpired policies or certificates to be paid, canceled, or reinsured, and all its liabilities under such policies or certificates to be extinguished thereby, or to be assumed by some other responsible company authorized to do business in this state, the superintendent of insurance shall deliver ...

...Annually, before the first day of March, every corporation, company, or association referred to in section 3919.31 of the Revised Code shall file with the superintendent of insurance a statement under the oath of its officers showing its transactions for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December preceding, and its condition on that day, in the form prescribed by the superintendent.

...Sections 3919.16 to 3919.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to any association of religious or secret societies, or to any class of mechanics, express, telegraph, or railroad employees, or of ex-union soldiers, formed for the mutual benefit of the member thereof and their families or blood relatives exclusively, or for purely charitable purposes.

...Any association or class described in section 3919.39 of the Revised Code which desires to become subject to sections 3919.16 to 3919.19 of the Revised Code, may file with the superintendent of insurance notice thereof in writing, signed by its president and attested by its secretary. Thereupon such association or class shall become subject to such sections. The superintendent immediately must provide such an associa...

...The treasurer of any association or class described in section 3919.39 of the Revised Code which avails itself of the benefits of sections 3919.16 to 3919.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall give bond in the manner provided for treasurers of mutual benefit companies, such bond to be conditioned, approved, and renewed as by such treasurer.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Benefit contract" means an agreement, as described in division (A) of section 3921.19 of the Revised Code, under which a fraternal benefit society agrees to provide any benefit set forth in division (A) of section 3921.16 of the Revised Code. (B) "Benefit member" means an adult member of a fraternal benefit society who is designated by the laws or rules of the society to be eligible fo...

...Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under division (A)(2) of section 3921.37 of the Revised Code whether incorporated or not, 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 providing benefits in accordance wi...

...(A) For purposes of section 3921.02 of the Revised Code, a society is operating on the lodge system if it has a supreme governing body and subordinate lodges into which members are elected, initiated, or admitted in accordance with its laws, rules, and ritual. The subordinate lodges shall be required by the laws of the society to hold regular meetings at least once in each month in furtherance of the purposes of the ...

...For purposes of section 3921.02 of the Revised Code, a fraternal benefit society has a representative form of government if all of the following apply: (A) The society has a supreme governing body constituted in either of the following ways: (1) As an assembly composed of delegates elected directly by the members or at intermediate assemblies or conventions of members or their representatives, together with other d...

...(A) A fraternal benefit society shall operate for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries by providing any of the benefits set forth in section 3921.16 of the Revised Code, and by operating for social, intellectual, educational, charitable, benevolent, moral, fraternal, patriotic, or religious purposes for the benefit of its members and any other persons as determined by the society. Such purposes may be c...

...(A) A fraternal benefit society shall specify all of the following in its laws or rules: (1) Eligibility standards for each membership class, provided that if benefits are provided on the lives of children, the minimum age for adult membership shall be set at not less than fifteen years of age and not greater than twenty-one years of age; (2) The process for admission to membership for each membership class; (3) T...

...(A) The principal office of any domestic fraternal benefit society shall be located in this state. The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held in any state, district, province, or territory in which the society has at least one subordinate lodge, or in any other location determined by the supreme governing body, and all business transacted at such meetings is as valid in all respects as if the meetings wer...

...(A) The officers and members of the supreme governing body or any subordinate body of a fraternal benefit society are not personally liable for any benefits provided by a society. (B)(1) A person may be indemnified and reimbursed by a society for expenses reasonably incurred by, and liabilities imposed upon, the person in connection with or arising out of any civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative action,...

...The laws of a fraternal benefit society may provide that no subordinate body, nor any of its subordinate officers or members, shall have the power or authority to waive any of the provisions of the laws of the society. Such provision shall be binding on the society and every member and beneficiary of a member.

...A domestic fraternal benefit society organized on or after January 1, 1997, shall be formed as follows: (A) Seven or more citizens of the United States, a majority of whom are residents of this state, who desire to form a fraternal benefit society, may make, sign, and acknowledge before some officer competent to take acknowledgement of deeds, articles of incorporation stating all of the following: (1) The pro...

...(A)(1) On and after January 1, 2016, a fraternal benefit society that provides the contractual benefits listed in division (A)(1) of section 3921.16 of the Revised Code in this state in a benefit amount of greater than ten thousand dollars shall have and maintain a surplus of two million five hundred thousand dollars for all lines written. (2) On and after January 1, 2016, a fraternal benefit society that pr...

... (A) In the event a domestic fraternal benefit society has an authorized control level RBC as defined in section 3903.81 of the Revised Code or fails to comply with section 3921.101 of the Revised Code, the society shall present to the superintendent of insurance a plan to protect the interests of the society members not later than forty-five days following such an event. The plan shall provide for the transfer of al...