{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-378.616","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 378.616","heading":"Benefits authorized — rules to specify allowable beneficiaries.","body":"1. A society may provide the following contractual benefits in any form:\n(1) Death benefits;\n(2) Endowment benefits;\n(3) Annuity benefits;\n(4) Temporary or permanent disability benefits;\n(5) Hospital, medical or nursing benefits; and\n(6) Monument or tombstone benefits to the memory of deceased members; and\n(7) Such other benefits as authorized for life insurers and which are not inconsistent with this chapter.\n2. A society shall specify in its rules those persons who may be issued, or covered by, the contractual benefits in subsection 1 of this section, consistent with providing benefits to members and their dependents. A society may provide benefits on the lives of children under the minimum age for adult membership upon application of an adult person.","path":["Title XXIV - BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS","Chapter 378 - Fraternal Benefit Societies"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=378.616","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:27Z","sha256":"27214289f662e978e899090e5c8243d7e211d270ae5cbd4de8c09986896e6a2c","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-378.615","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-378.617"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}