2009 Iowa Code
Title 13 - Commerce
Subtitle 1 - Insurance and Related Regulation
CHAPTER 512B - FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
512B.8 - LOCATION OF OFFICE, MEETINGS, COMMUNICATIONS TO MEMBERS, GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES.

        512B.8  LOCATION OF OFFICE, MEETINGS, COMMUNICATIONS
      TO MEMBERS, GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES.
         1.  The principal office of a domestic society shall be located in
      this state.  The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held
      anywhere the society has at least one subordinate lodge, or in
      another location as determined by the supreme governing body, and all
      business transacted at a meeting held out of state shall be as valid
      in all respects as if the meeting were held in this state.  The
      minutes of the proceedings of the supreme governing body and of the
      board of directors shall be in the English language.
         2. a.  A society may provide in its laws for an official
      publication in which any notice, report, or statement required by law
      to be given to members, including notice of election, may be
      published.  Such required reports, notices, and statements shall be
      printed conspicuously in the publication.  If the records of a
      society show that two or more members have the same mailing address,
      an official publication mailed to one member is deemed to be mailed
      to all members at the same address unless a member requests a
      separate copy.
         b.  Not later than June 1 of each year, a synopsis of the
      society's annual statement providing an explanation of the facts
      concerning the condition of the society disclosed in the annual
      statement shall be printed and mailed to each benefit member of the
      society or, in lieu of mailing, the synopsis may be published in the
      society's official publication.
         3.  A society may provide in its laws or regulations for grievance
      or complaint procedures for members.  

         90 Acts, ch 1148, §8