for him shall pay such member's assessments and dues or either of them, shall give the beneficiary or other person a vested right in the benefit certificate or in the benefit or deprive the member of the right to change the name of the beneficiary or revoke the certificate, if any, issued by such association; Provided, That such change or revocation shall be made by written or printed notice to the association in the manner and form provided for by its by-laws. empt From SECTION 13. The money or other benefit, charity, re- Benefits Exlief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by any as- Legal Process sociation authorized to do business under this Act, shall not be liable to attachment, by trustee, garnishee or other process, and shall not be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process, ‹r by operation of law, to pay any debt or liability of the certificate holder, or of any beneficiary named in any certificate, or any person who may have any right thereunder. ciations Admitted, When; Table. SECTION 14. No association not admitted to trans- Foreign Assoact business within this Territory prior to the passage Mortality of this Act shall be incorporated or given a permit or certificate of authority to transact business within this Territory, as provided for by this Act, unless it shall first show that the mortuary assessment rates, provided for in whatever plan of business it has adopted, are not lower than is indicated as necessary by the following mortality table: FRATERNAL CONGRESS MORTALITY TABLE. Legislative Fraudulent for Member.. SECTION 15. Any such fraternal beneficiary asocia tion organized under the laws of this Territory may provide for the meeting of its legislative or governing body in any other State, Territory or Province, wherein such association shall have subordinate lodges or bodies, and all business or corporate acts transacted at such meetings shall be valid in all re spects as if such meetings were held in this Territory; and where the laws of any such association provide for the election of its officers by votes cast in its subordinate bodies, the votes so cast by its subordinate bodies in any other State, Territory or Province shall be as valid as if cast in this Territory. SECTION 16. Any person, officer, member or exam ship, Misde-ining physician who shall knowingly or wilfully meanor; Penalty. Fraudulent Statement; make any false or fraudulent statement or representation in or with reference to any application for membership or for the purpose of obtaining any money or benefit in any association transacting business under this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and any person who shall wilfully make any false statement of any material fact or thing in a sworn statement as to the death or disability of a certificate holder or member in any association for the purpose of procuring payment of a benefit named in the certificate of such holder, and any person who shall wilfully make any false statement in any verified report or declaration under oath, required or authorized by this Act, shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be proceeded against and punished as provided by the Statutes of this Territory in relation to the crime of perjury. Association Make Report, perintendent Officer Dis Injunction, SECTION 17. Any such association, whether organ- Refusing to ized under the laws of this Territory or of any other Duty of SuState, Territory or Province, refusing or neglecting of Insurance; to make the report as provided in this Act shall be obeying excluded from doing business within this Territory. Penalty. The Superintendent of Insurance, within sixty days after any such association's failure to make such report, or in case any such association shall exceed its powers, or shall conduct its business fraudulently, or shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, must give notice in writing to the Attorney General, who shall immediately commence an action against any such association to enjoin it from carrying on any business within this Territory. No injunction against any such association shall be granted by any court to enjoin it from transacting business in this Territory, except on application of the Attorney General thereof, at the request of the Superintendent of Insurance, whether the Territory or a member of other party seeks relief. No association so enjoined shall have power or authority to continue in business until such report shall be made, or overt acts or violation of the law complained of shall be corrected, nor until the costs of such action be paid by it, provided the court shall find that such association was in default as charged; whereupon the Superintendent of Insurance shall re-instate such association, and not until that is done by him shall such association be again allowed to do business within this Territory. Any officer, agent or person acting for such association, or subordinate body thereof, within this Territory, while such association shall be so enjoined or prohibited from doing business pursuant to this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), or by imprison |