116 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

1894, ch. 295.

143 M. Any such association organized under the laws of this
State may provide for the meetings of its legislative or govern-
ing body in any other State, province or territory wherein such
association shall have subordinate bodies, and all business trans-
acted at such meetings, shall be valid in all respects, as if such
meetings were held within this State; and where the laws of
any such association provide for the election of its officers by
votes to be cast in its subordinate bodies the votes so cast in its
subordinate bodies in any other State, province or territory shall
be valid as if cast within this State.

Ibid.

143 N. Any person, officer, member or examining physician,
who shall knowingly or willfully make any false or fraudulent
statement or representation, in or with reference to any applica-
tion for membership, or for the purpose of obtaining any money
or benefit in any association transacting business under section
143 E to 143 E (both inclusive) of this article, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars, or imprisonment in the city or county jail for not less
than thirty days nor more than one year, or both, in the discre-
tion of the court; and any person who shall willfully make a
false statement of any material fact or thing in a sworn statement,
as to death or disability of a certificate holder in any such asso-
ciation, for the purpose of procuring payment of a benefit named
in the certificate of such holder, and any person who shall will-
fully make any false statement in any verified report or declara-
tion under oath, required or authorized under the provisions of
section 143 E to section 143 B (both inclusive) of this article, or
either of them, shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be proceeded
against and punished as provided by the statutes of this State in
relation to the crime of perjury.

Ibid.

143 O. Any such association refusing or neglecting to make
the report as provided in section 143 H, shall be excluded from
doing business within this State in procuring new members.
Said Insurance Commissioner must, within sixty days after failure