Nevada Revised Statutes (Last Updated: December 24, 2014) |
TITLE57 INSURANCE |
CHAPTER695A. Fraternal Benefit Societies |
NRS695A.120. Location of principal office; meetings of supreme governing body; minutes of certain proceedings; official publications; grievances by benefit members.
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1. The principal office of any domestic society must be located in this state.
2. The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held in any state, district, province or territory in which the society has at least five subordinate lodges, and all business transacted at those meetings is as valid in all respects as if the meetings were held in this state.
3. The minutes of the proceedings of the supreme governing body and the board of directors must be written in the English language.
4. A society may provide in its laws for an official publication in which any notice, report or statement which is required by law to be given to a member, including a notice of election, may be published. Such a report, notice or statement must be printed conspicuously in the publication.
5. If the records of a society indicate that two or more benefit members have the same mailing address, an official publication mailed to one member shall be deemed to be mailed to all members at the same address unless a member requests a separate copy.
6. A society may provide in its laws or rules a procedure by which a benefit member may pursue a grievance or complaint against the society, its supreme governing body, officers, directors or other members.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1839; A 1991, 227)