INSURANCE 2179

An. Code, 1924, sec. 179. 1922, ch. 492, sec. 176.

213. (Revocation of License.) When the Insurance Commissioner, on
investigation, is satisfied that any foreign association transacting business
under this Article has exceeded its powers, or has failed to comply with
any provisions of this Article, or is conducting business fraudulently, or
is not carrying out its contracts in good faith, he shall notify the association
of his findings and state in writing the grounds of his dissatisfaction, and
after reasonable notice require said association on a date named to show
cause why its license should not be revoked. If on the date named in said
notice such objections have not been removed to the satisfaction of the
said Commissioner, or the association does not present good and sufficient
reasons why its authority to transact business in this State should not at
that time be revoked, he may revoke the authority of the association to
continue business in this State. All decisions and findings of the Com-
missioner made under the provisions of this section may be reviewed by
proper proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction, as provided in
Section 196.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 180. 1922, ch. 492, sec. 177.

214. (Exemptions.) Nothing contained in this Article shall be con-
strued to affect or apply to grand or subordinate lodges of Masons, Odd Fel-
lows or Knights of Pythias (exclusive of the insurance department of the
Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias), and the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics (exclusive of the beneficiary degree or insurance
branch of the National Council Junior Order United American Mechanics)
or associations which limit their membership to any one hazardous occu-
pation, or to similar associations which do not issue insurance certificates,
or to an association of local lodges of a society now doing business in this
State which provides death benefits not exceeding three hundred dollars
to any one person, or disability benefits not exceeding three hundred
dollars in any one year to any one person, or both, or to any contract of
reinsurance business on such plans in this State, or to domestic associations
which limit their membership to employees of any particular city or town,
designated firm, business house or corporation, or to domestic lodges, orders
or associations of a purely religious, charitable and benevolent description,
which do not provide for a death benefit of more than one hundred dollars,
or for disability benefits of more than one hundred and fifty dollars to
any one person in any one year, or to corporations, societies or voluntary
associations, the business of which is conducted strictly upon the mortuary
assessment plan and of which the death benefit certificates are issued for
no fixed amount and are limited to a sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars in the case of any one person; provided, always, that any such
domestic order or society which has more than five hundred members, and
provides for death or disability benefits, any and any such domestic lodge,¹
order or society which issues to any person a certificate providing for the
payment of benefits, shall not be exempt by the provisions of this section,
but shall comply with all the requirements of this Article.

The Insurance Commissioner may require from any society such infor-
mation as will enable him to determine whether such society is exempt
from the provisions of this Article. No society which is exempt by the
provisions of this section from the requirement of this Article shall give or

¹ This line is just as it is in the printed act.
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