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subordinate lodges for which no benefit certificates shall be issued;

(2)  Orders, societies or associations which admit to membership only persons
engaged in one or more crafts or hazardous occupations, in the same or similar
lines of business, insuring only their own members, their families and dependents
of members and the [ladies'] societies or [ladies'] auxiliaries to such orders,
societies or associations;

(3)    Domestic societies which limit their membership to employees of a
particular city or town, designated firm, business house or corporation which
provide for a death benefit of not more than four hundred dollars ($400) or
disability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars ($350) to any person
in any one year, or both; or

(4)   Domestic societies or associations of a purely religious, charitable or
benevolent description, which provide for a death benefit of not more than four
hundred dollars ($400) or for disability benefits of not more than three hundred
fifty dollars ($350) to any one person in any one year, or both.

(b)  Any such society or association described in clauses (3) or (4), above, which
provides for death or disability benefits for which benefit certificates are issued,
and any [such] society or association included in paragraph (4) which has more
than one thousand (1,000) members, shall not be exempted from the provisions of
this subtitle but shall comply with all requirements thereof.

(c)   No society which, by the provisions of this section, is exempt from the
requirements of this subtitle, except any society described in paragraph (2), above,
shall give or allow, or promise to give or allow to any person any compensation
for procuring new members.

(d)   Every society which provides for benefits in case of death or disability
resulting solely from accident, and which does not obligate itself to pay natural
death or sick benefits shall have all of the privileges and be subject to all the
applicable provisions and regulations of this subtitle except that the provisions
thereof relating to medical examination, valuations of benefit certificates, and
incontestability, shall not apply to such society.

(e)   The Commissioner may require from any society or association, by
examination or otherwise, [such] THE information as will enable him to determine
whether such society or association is exempt from the provisions of this subtitle.

(f) Orders, societies or associations, exempted under the provisions of this
section, shall also be exempt from all other provisions of the insurance laws of this
State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 10, 1973.