33-7-105. Fraternal benefit societies. Any incorporated or unincorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including a society exempted under the provisions of 33-7-126(1)(b), that is conducted solely for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit, that is operated on a lodge system with ritualistic forms of work, that has a representative form of government, and that provides benefits in accordance with this chapter, is a fraternal benefit society.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 586, L. 1991.