Tex. Insurance Code § 885.054: REPRESENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT DEFINED.

A fraternal benefit society has a representative form of government if:

(1) the society has a supreme governing body constituted as:

(A) an assembly, as described by Section 885.055; or

(B) a board, as described by Section 885.057;

(2) the officers of the society are elected by the supreme governing body or the board of directors;

(3) only a benefit member is eligible to serve as a member of the supreme governing body, the board of directors, or an intermediate assembly of the society;

(4) only a benefit member may vote on the management of the society's insurance affairs;

(5) a voting member of the society has only one vote; and

(6) a voting member of the society may not cast a vote by proxy.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.