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allow or promise to give or allow, to any person any compensation for
procuring new members. Any fraternal beneficiary association heretofore
organized and incorporated and operating within the definition set forth
in Sections 180, 181 and 182, providing for benefits in case of death or
disability, resulting solely from accidents, .but which does not obligate
itself to pay death or sick benefits, may be licensed under the provisions of
this Article, and shall have all the privileges and shall be subject to all the
provisions and regulations of this Article, except that the provisions of this
Article requiring medical examinations, valuations of benefit certificates,
and that the certificates shall specify the amount of benefits, shall not
apply to such associations.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 181. 1922, ch. 492, sec. 178. 1929, ch. 226, sec. 181 (p. 721).

215. Every fraternal beneficiary association organized or licensed
under this Article is hereby declared to be a charitable and benevolent
institution.
As to exemptions from taxation in general, see art. 81, sec. 7.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 182. 1922, ch. 492, sec. 179.

216. (Penalties.) Any person, officer, member or examining physician
of any association authorized to do business under this Article who shall
knowingly or willfully make any false or fraudulent statement or repre-
sentation in or with reference to any application for membership, or for
the purpose of obtaining money from or benefit in any association trans-
acting business under this Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in
the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or
both, in the discretion of the court, and any person who shall willfully make
a false statement of any material fact or thing in a sworn statement as
to the death or disability of a certificate holder in any such association for
the purpose of procuring payment of a benefit named in the certificate of
such holder, and any person who shall wilfully make a false statement
in any verified report or declaration made under oath required or authorized
by this Article, shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be proceeded against
and punished as provided by the statutes of this State in relation to the
crime of perjury. Any person who shall solicit membership for, or in any
manner assist in procuring membership in any fraternal beneficiary asso-
ciation not licensed to do business in this State, or who shall solicit member-
ship for, or in any manner assist in procuring membership in any such
association not authorized as herein provided to do business as herein de-
fined in this State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two
hundred dollars. Any association, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof
neglecting or refusing to comply with or violating any of the provisions of
this Article, the penalty for which neglect, refusal or violation is not speci-
fied in this section, shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars upon
conviction thereof.

1927, ch. 614.

217. Any fraternal benefit society authorized to do business in this
state that is one hundred per cent. (100%) solvent and has been doing