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Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 2. Business § 432:1-303

Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) Each society promising or offering to pay death, sick, disability, or other benefits in an amount equal to or in excess of $25 may solicit members for the purpose of completing its organization upon receipt from the commissioner of the certificate of registration required in section 432:1-301, and may collect from each applicant the amount of not more than one regular monthly payment and shall issue to each applicant a receipt for the amount so collected.

(b) Except as hereinafter provided, no society shall incur any liability other than for the advance payments, nor issue any benefit certificate, nor allow, or offer or promise to pay, or allow to any person any death benefit until:

(1) Actual bona fide applications for death certificates have been secured upon at least one hundred lives for at least $25 each, and all the applicants for death benefits have been regularly examined by a qualified practicing physician, and certificates of the examination have been duly filed with and approved by the administrative board or body of the society; and

(2) At least one hundred applicants have been accepted for membership; and

(3) There has been submitted to the commissioner, under oath of the president and secretary, or corresponding officers of the society, a list of applicants including the following information about each applicant:

(A) Name and address,

(B) Date examined,

(C) Date of approval,

(D) Date accepted as member,

(E) If subordinate branches have been established, the name and number of the subordinate branch of which each applicant is a member,

(F) Amount of benefits to be granted, and

(G) The rate of stated periodical contributions which shall be sufficient to provide for meeting the mortuary obligations contracted when valued for death purposes upon the basis of a recognized table of mortality or any mutual benefit standard based on at least twenty years' experience, and for disability benefits by tables based upon reliable experience, and for combined death and permanent total disability benefits by tables based upon reliable experience; and

(4) It has been shown to the commissioner by the sworn statement of the treasurer or corresponding officer of the society that at least one hundred applicants have paid in cash at least one regular monthly payment as provided under subsection (a), which payments in the aggregate shall amount to at least five times the maximum amount of death benefit offered or promised to be paid to any one member.

(c) If the society does not offer or promise to pay any death benefits in excess of $25 upon the death of a member, but merely offers or promises to pay disability benefits by reason of sickness or injury, or to pay any other benefits, with or without provision of death benefit in excess of $25, the society shall apply for a certificate of authority from the commissioner.

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