Any incorporated society, order, or supreme lodge, without capital stock, whether incorporated or not, conducted solely for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit, operated on a lodge system with ritualistic form of work, having a representative form of government, and which provides benefits in accordance with this chapter, is a fraternal benefit society.
S.C. Code Ann. § 38-38-10
Fraternal benefit society defined
2000 Act No. 259, SECTION 1.
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