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      40-202.   Code inapplicable to certain lodges, societies, persons and associations. Nothing contained in this code shall apply to:

      (a)   Grand or subordinate lodges of any fraternal benefit society which admits to membership only persons engaged in one or more hazardous occupations in the same or similar line of business or to fraternal benefit societies as defined in and organized under article 7 of chapter 40 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and amendments thereto, unless they be expressly designated;

      (b)   the employees of a particular person, firm, or corporation;

      (c)   mercantile associations which simply guarantee insurance to each other in the same lines of trade and do not solicit insurance from the general public;

      (d)   the Swedish Mutual Aid Association of Rapp, Osage county, Kansas;

      (e)   the Scandia Mutual Protective Insurance Company, of Chanute, Kansas;

      (f)   the Seneca and St. Benedict Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Nemaha county, Kansas;

      (g)   the mutual insurance system practiced in the Mennonite church, in accordance with an old custom, either by the congregation themselves or by special associations, of its members in Kansas;

      (h)   the Kansas State High-School Activities Association;

      (i)   the Mutual Aid Association of the Church of the Brethren; or

      (j)   a voluntary noncontractual mutual aid arrangement founded on or before December 31, 1982, whereby the needs of participants are announced and accommodated through subscriptions to a monthly publication.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 231, 40-202; L. 1931, ch. 202, § 1; L. 1935, ch. 194, § 1; L. 1941, ch. 256, § 1; L. 1947, ch. 271, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 291, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 173, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 108, § 1; July 1.