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Statutes > Connecticut > Title38a > Chap700d > Sec38a-625

      Sec. 38a-625. (Formerly Sec. 38-247). Exempt societies. Nothing contained in sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800 shall be so construed as to affect or apply to: (a) Grand or subordinate lodges of societies, orders or associations doing business in this state on January 1, 1958, which provide benefits exclusively through local or subordinate lodges; (b) 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, and the ladies' societies or ladies' auxiliaries to such orders, societies or associations; (c) 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 or disability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars to any person in any one year, or both; (d) 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 or for disability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars to any one person in any one year or both; or (e) nonprofit voluntary associations which provide ambulance service, and are financed by subscription or gifts only. Any such society or association described in subdivision (c) or (d), which provides for death or disability benefits for which benefit certificates are issued, and any such society or association included in subdivision (d) which has more than one thousand members, shall not be exempted from the provisions of sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800 but shall comply with all requirements hereof. No society which, by the provisions of this section, is exempt from the requirements of said sections, except any society described in subdivision (b), shall give or allow, or promise to give or allow, to any person any compensation for procuring new members. Every society which provides for benefits in case of death or disability resulting solely from accidents, and which does not obligate itself to pay natural death or sick benefits, shall have all the privileges and be subject to all the applicable provisions and regulations of said sections, except that the provisions hereof relating to medical examination, valuations of benefit certificates and incontestability shall not apply to such society. The commissioner may require from any society or association, by examination or otherwise, such information as will enable him to determine whether such society or association is exempt from the provisions of said sections. Societies, exempted under the provisions of this section, shall also be exempt from all other provisions of the insurance laws of this state.

      (1949 Rev., S. 6268, 6274; 1953, S. 2852d; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 42; 1963, P.A. 186.)

      History: 1963 act exempted nonprofit voluntary associations providing ambulance service which are financed solely by subscription or gifts from provisions of chapter; Sec. 38-247 transferred to Sec. 38a-625 in 1991.