INSURANCE
CHAPTER 32
FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
41-3216. Benefits. (1) A society may provide the following contractual benefits in any form:
(a) Death benefits;
(b) Endowment benefits;
(c) Annuity benefits;
(d) Temporary or permanent disability benefits;
(e) Hospital, medical or nursing benefits; and
(f) Monument or tombstone benefits to the memory of deceased members; and
(g) Such other benefits as authorized for life insurers and which are not inconsistent with this chapter.
(2) A society shall specify in its rules those persons who may be issued, or covered by, the contractual benefits in subsection (1) of this section, consistent with providing benefits to members and their dependents. A society may provide benefits on the lives of children under the minimum age for adult membership upon application of an adult person.
(3) Any new or renewing society contract relating to hospital, medical or nursing benefits delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall provide that an unmarried child under the age of twenty-five (25) years and who receives more than one-half (1/2) of his financial support from the parent shall be permitted to remain on the parent's or parents' contract. Further, any unmarried child of any age who is medically certified as disabled and financially dependent upon the parent is permitted to remain on the parent's or parents' contract.