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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66864</law_id><section_number>38.2-4136</section_number><catch_line>Societies previously existing; reincorporation; amendments</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="41">Fraternal Benefit Societies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Regulation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any incorporated <span class="dictionary">society</span> doing business in this Commonwealth on June 19, 1914, may exercise all of the rights conferred by this chapter, and all of the rights, powers and <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> exercised or possessed by it under its charter or articles of incorporation not inconsistent with <span class="dictionary">law</span>; or, if a voluntary association, it may incorporate as provided herein. No <span class="dictionary">society</span> organized prior to June 19, 1914, shall be required to reincorporate under this section. Any <span class="dictionary">society</span> may <span class="dictionary">amend</span> its <span class="dictionary">certificate</span> of incorporation in the manner provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 38-269, 38.1-580; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-638.12; 1968, c. 654; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
