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To file copy of
charter, etc.,
with insur-
ance com-
missioner.
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tion of a fraternal beneficiary association, as set forth in section
143 E of this article, organized under the laws of this or any
other State, province or territory, and now doing business in
this State, may continue such business, provided that it here-
after comply with the provisions of sections 143 H and 143 I,
regulating annual reports, and the designation of the commis-
sioner of insurance as the person upon whom process may be
served as hereinafter provided; and shall file with the commis-
sioner of insurance a duly certified copy of its charter or act of
incorporation, its form of benefit certificate and also a certificate
of the proper officer of such State, province or territory, certi-
fying that such association is authorized to conduct its business
therein, where the laws of such State, province or territory
require an annual report of the operations of such association,
or where its laws authorize such certificate, and, thereupon,
said commissioner of insurance shall issue a certificate to said
association authorizing it to continue to do business in this
State, for which he shall receive the sum of twenty-five
dollars; but if said association be incorporated under the laws
of this State, or if it be a foreign corporation, and by the laws
of the State of its incorporation shall not be required to
make report or the certificate referred to in this section shall
not be authorized by such law, then the commissioner of
insurance shall make examination of its affairs in manner as
provided in the next succeeding section, (section 143 G) in like
case before issuing such certificate, and until a certificate is
refused, after examination had as provided, such association
shall continue to do business in the State as heretofore.
Immediately upon the passage of this act, the commis-
sioner of insurance shall notify the supreme secretary and
the State secretary of all associations described in section
143 E, now doing business in this State, of the provisions of
this and the following section, and said association shall file
the papers in this section required to be tiled within two
months after receiving said notice. The expense of the
examination required under this section for associations incor-
porated under the laws of this State, shall not exceed fifty
dollars.
SEC. 143 G. Any such association coming within the descrip-
tion of a fraternal beneficiary association, as set forth in section
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