2025 Code of Georgia
Title 33 - Insurance (Chs. 1 — 66)
Chapter 15 - Fraternal Benefit Societies (Arts. 1 — 7)

Annotations

Notes

Ga. L. 1993, p. 1744, § 1, effective July 1, 1993, repealed the Code sections formerly codified as this chapter and enacted the current chapter. The former chapter consisted of §§ 33-15-1 through 33-15-11.1, §§ 33-15-12 through 33-15-39 (Article 1) and §§ 33-15-50 through 33-15-56 (Article 2) and was based on Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 983, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1979, p. 786, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 33; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 33; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1399, §§ 6, 7; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1537, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2725, § 19.

Ga. L. 1993, p. 1744, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provided: “This Act shall become effective July 1, 1993, and shall apply on and after such date for all new or newly admitted societies. For societies admitted prior to July 1, 1993, this Act shall apply on and after January 1, 1994.”

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

A member of a fraternal benefit order, association, or society may recover all assessments paid in, upon being illegally expelled therefrom. Brothers & Sisters of Charity v. Renfroe, 57 Ga. App. 646, 196 S. E. 135, 1938 Ga. App. LEXIS 357 (1938).

Opinion Notes

This title does not prohibit the imposition of a reasonable occupation tax on fraternal benefit societies actually doing business in a municipality. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-187.

Research References & Practice Aids

Nonprofit corporations generally, T. 14, C. 3.

Effect of injunction restraining expulsion of member from benefit society, 1 A. L. R. 169.

Second trial of member of association for same offense, 1 A. L. R. 431.

Right of association to expel or discipline member for exercising a right, or performing duty, as a citizen, 14 A. L. R. 1446.

Right of member of society with benefits in nature of insurance to notice and hearing before suspension or expulsion, 27 A. L. R. 1512.

Expulsion or suspension of local lodge or other unit of benefit society, 94 A. L. R. 639.

Insurance: practice of fraternal or mutual benefit society of accepting late payment of premiums or assessments as waiver of right to insist upon forfeiture for nonpayment of other premiums or assessments at time due, 108 A. L. R. 681.

Fraternal benefit societies as entitled to voluntary, or subject to involuntary, bankruptcy, 148 A. L. R. 714.

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