US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  41
                                  INSURANCE
                                  CHAPTER 32
                         FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
    41-3234.  SERVICE OF PROCESS. (1) Every society authorized to do business
in this state shall appoint in writing the director and each successor in
office to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any
action or proceeding against it shall be served, and shall agree in such
writing that any lawful process against it which is served on such attorney
shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the society,
and that the authority shall continue in force so long as any liability
remains outstanding in this state. Copies of such appointment, certified by
the director, shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof and shall be
admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as the original thereof
might be admitted.
    (2)  Service shall only be made upon the director, or if absent, upon the
person in charge of his office. It shall be made in duplicate and shall
constitute sufficient service upon the society. When legal process against a
society is served upon the director, he shall forthwith forward one (1) of the
duplicate copies by registered mail, prepaid, directed to the secretary or
corresponding officer. No such service shall require a society to file its
answer, pleading or defense in less than thirty (30) days from the date of
mailing the copy of the service to a society. Legal process shall not be
served upon a society except in the manner herein provided.
    (3)  At the time of serving any process upon the director, the plaintiff
or complainant in the action shall pay to the director the fee prescribed in
section 41-3235, Idaho Code.