33-6-302. Expenses -- assessment for expenses -- shown in annual statement. - Montana Statutes

     33-6-302. Expenses -- assessment for expenses -- shown in annual statement. (1) The total expenses of any benevolent association during any calendar year shall not exceed the larger of the following:
     (a) 20% of the total amount received during such year, whether as assessments, dues, donations, or by whatever name called, except fees collected for new memberships; or
     (b) $15 per death loss incurred during such year.
     (2) Such an association may, instead of providing for expenses as in subsection (1) above, assess each of its members for expenses at an amount not to exceed $3 per calendar year, except that such assessment shall not exceed $4 per year where a membership certificate includes within its protection a family group consisting of two or more persons. The proceeds of such assessments shall be placed in an expense fund out of which all of the expenses of the association for such year shall be paid. The association shall show the condition of such expense fund in its annual statement.
     (3) The association shall state in its annual statement whether the expenses as to be shown in its next annual statement will be determined as in subsection (1) above or whether the members will be assessed for the same as in subsection (2) above. No association shall use both methods or a combination of such methods.

     History: En. Sec. 533, Ch. 286, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 224, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 40-4913.