Chap. 415.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4302 of Chapter 171 of the
Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, providing for the regulation and
control of fraternal beneficiary associations, orders or societies, [S B 298]

Approved March 30, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-three hundred and two of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4302. Exemption of Certain Societies —Nothing contained
in this chapter shall be construed to affect or apply to grand or
subordinate lodges of Masons, Odd Fellows, or Knights of Pythias,
exclusive of the insurance department of the Supreme Lodge Knights of
Pythias, or the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, exclu-
sive of the beneficiary degree or insurance branch of the National
Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics, or societies which
admit to membership only persons engaged in one or more hazard-
ous occupations in the same or similar lines of business, nor to
similar societies which do not issue insurance certificates, nor to an
association of local lodges of a society now doing business in this
State, which provides death benefits not exceeding five hundred
dollars to any one person, or disability benefits not exceeding three
hundred dollars in any one year to any one person, or both, nor to
any contracts of reinsurance business on such plan in this State, nor
to domestic societies which limit their membership to the employees
of a particular city or town, designated firm, business house or cor-
poration, nor to domestic lodges, orders or associations of a purely
religious, charitable and benevolent description, which do not pro-
vide for a death benefit of more than one hundred dollars, or for
disability benefits of more than one hundred and fifty dollars to any
one person in any one year. The State Corporation Commission may
require from any society such information as will enable it to deter-
mine whether such society is exempt from the provisions of this
chapter.

Any fraternal benefit society, heretofore organized and _ incor-
porated and operating within the definition set forth in sections forty-
two hundred and seventy-three, forty-two hundred and seventy-four
and forty-two hundred and seventy-five of this chapter, providing
for benefits in case of death or disability resulting solely from
accidents, but which does not obligate itself to pay death or sick
benefits, may be licensed under the provisions of this chapter, and
shall have all the privileges and shall be subject to all the provisions
and regulations of this chapter, except that the provisions of this
chapter requiring medical examinations, valuations of benefit certifi-
cates, and that the certificate shall specify the amount of benefit,
shall not apply to such society.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.