IC 27-11-9
    Chapter 9. Miscellaneous Provisions

IC 27-11-9-1
Appointment of attorney for service of process; method of servingprocess
    Sec. 1. (a) Every society authorized to do business in Indiana shallappoint in writing an individual resident of Indiana, a corporateresident of Indiana, or an authorized Indiana insurer to be its true andlawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any action orproceeding against it shall be served and shall agree in such writingthat:
        (1) any lawful process against it that is served on the attorneyshall be of the same legal force and validity as if served uponthe society; and
        (2) the authority shall continue in force so long as any liabilityremains outstanding in this state.
Copies of the appointment, certified by the commissioner, shall beconsidered sufficient evidence thereof and shall be admitted inevidence with the same force and effect as the original might beadmitted.
    (b) Service shall only be made upon the attorney or, if absent,upon the person in charge of the attorney's office. It shall be made induplicate and shall constitute sufficient service upon the society.When legal process against a society is served upon the attorney, theattorney shall immediately forward one (1) of the duplicate copies byregistered mail, prepaid, directed to the secretary or correspondingofficer. No service shall require a society to file its answer, pleading,or defense in less than thirty (30) days from the date of mailing thecopy of the service to a society. Legal process shall not be servedupon a society except in the manner provided in this section.
As added by P.L.262-1985, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.130-1994,SEC.48; P.L.116-1994, SEC.71; P.L.268-1999, SEC.21.

IC 27-11-9-2
Judicial review of decisions and findings of commissioner
    Sec. 2. All decisions and findings of the commissioner madeunder this article shall be subject to review by proper proceedings inany court of competent jurisdiction in this state.
As added by P.L.262-1985, SEC.1.

IC 27-11-9-3
Violations
    Sec. 3. (a) A person who knowingly makes any false or fraudulentstatement or representation in or with reference to any application formembership or for the purpose of obtaining money from or benefitsin any society transacting business under this chapter, commits aClass A misdemeanor.
    (b) A person who solicits membership for any fraternalbeneficiary association not licensed to do business in Indiana, or for

any society not authorized to do business in Indiana, commits a ClassC infraction.
    (c) Any person who knowingly violates, neglects, or refuses tocomply with a provision of this article for which a penalty is nototherwise prescribed commits a Class B misdemeanor.
As added by P.L.262-1985, SEC.1.

IC 27-11-9-4
Construction of article
    Sec. 4. (a) Nothing contained in this article shall be so construedas to affect or apply to:
        (1) grand or subordinate lodges of societies, orders, orassociations doing business in Indiana that provide benefitsexclusively through local or subordinate lodges;
        (2) orders, societies, or associations that admit to membershiponly persons engaged in one (1) or more crafts or hazardousoccupations, in the same or similar lines of business, insuringonly their own members and their families, and the ladies'societies or ladies' auxiliaries to these orders, societies, orassociations;
        (3) domestic societies that limit their membership to employeesof a particular city or town, designated firm, business house, orcorporation that provide for a death benefit of not more thanfour hundred dollars ($400) or disability benefits of not morethan three hundred fifty dollars ($350) to any person in any one(1) year, or both; or
        (4) domestic societies or associations of a purely religious,charitable, or benevolent description that provide for a deathbenefit of not more than four hundred dollars ($400) or fordisability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars($350) to any one (1) person in any one (1) year, or both.
    (b) Any society or association described in subsection (a)(3) or(a)(4) that provides for death or disability benefits for which benefitcertificates are issued, and any society or association included insubsection (a)(4) that has more than one thousand (1,000) members,shall not be exempted from this article but shall comply with allrequirements of this article.
    (c) A society that under this section is exempt from therequirements of this article, except any society described insubsection (a)(2), shall not give or allow or promise to give or allowto any person any compensation for procuring new members.
    (d) Every society that provides for benefits in case of death ordisability resulting solely from accident and that does not obligateitself to pay natural death or sick benefits shall have all of theprivileges and be subject to all the applicable provisions and rules ofthis article, except that the provisions relating to medicalexamination, valuations of benefit certificates, and incontestabilityshall not apply to the society.
    (e) The commissioner may require from any society orassociation, by examination or otherwise, such information as will

enable the commissioner to determine whether the society orassociation is exempt from this article.
    (f) Societies exempted under this section shall also be exemptfrom all other provisions of this title.
As added by P.L.262-1985, SEC.1.