Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-738

  • Lodge: means subordinate member units of the society, known as camps, courts, councils, branches or by any other designation. See Kansas Statutes 40-741
  • Society: means fraternal benefit society, unless otherwise indicated. See Kansas Statutes 40-741

Any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without capital stock, conducted solely for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit, operated on a lodge system with ritualistic form of work, having a representative form of government, and which provides benefits in accordance with this act, is hereby declared to be a fraternal benefit society.