Kansas Statutes 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;
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-202
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- insurance company: shall mean and include all corporations, companies, associations, societies, fraternal benefit societies, reciprocal exchanges, persons or partnerships writing contracts of insurance, indemnity or suretyship in this state upon any type of risk or loss except insurance companies transacting business pursuant to the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 40-222c
- person: means any individual, aggregation of individuals, trust, association, partnership or corporation, or any affiliate thereof. See Kansas Statutes 40-222f
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(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 whereby the needs of participants are announced and accommodated through subscriptions to a monthly publication.