2015 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 24. INSURANCE
432. Benefit Societies
432:1-305 Authority to offer death, sick, disability, or other benefits; restrictions on use of funds.

§432:1-305 Authority to offer death, sick, disability, or other benefits; restrictions on use of funds. (a) At no time shall the society, except as provided in subsection (c), use more than twenty-five per cent of the payments up to $100,000 and seven per cent of the payments in excess of $100,000, received from its members or applicants in the form of admission fees, dues, contributions, or assessments of any nature for expenses other than taxes, in connection with its management or operations.

(b) Any commissions or other payments or allowances to persons soliciting membership in or making collections for the society shall be included in the foregoing expenditures and no part of the commissions, payments or allowances may be in addition thereto; provided, that any society which exacts a membership fee of its new members not in excess of $10 for each membership may pay commissions or other payments to persons soliciting membership out of the fund created by the membership fees, and the amounts so paid as commissions or as such other payments out of such fund shall not be considered as expenses within the meaning of section 432:1-304 and section [432:1-305].

(c) Any association or society organized and operating solely as a nonprofit medical indemnity or hospital service association or society may use for such expenses, in addition to taxes, not more than thirty-five per cent of the payments received from its members or applicants in the form of admission fees, dues, contributions, or assessments of any nature. [L 1987, c 347, pt of §2; am L 2012, c 251, §7]