es of these procedures without the express written consent of both
(i) all members and benefit certificate or policy owners and benefi-
ciaries affected thereby and (ii) the Order.
(f) Remedies. This paragraph applies to any claim or dispute
resolved through binding arbitration as provided in subsection (c)
above, and it applies to any action in a court of law in the event that
a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction deems any party or
claim in a dispute not subject to binding arbitration. Except as
expressly limited in this paragraph, the parties to a dispute may be
awarded any and all damages or other relief allowed for the claim in
dispute by applicable federal or state law, including attorneys fees
and expenses if such attorney’s fees and expenses are deemed appro-
priate under applicable law. Exemplary or punitive damages may be
awarded pursuant to federal or state statute or, if awarded pursuant
to the common law, exemplary or punitive damages may be awarded.
(g) Severability. In the event that any court or arbitrator of compe-
tent jurisdiction deems any portion of this Section 86 to be unen-
forceable or otherwise void under applicable law, the remaining por-
tions of this Section 86 shall remain in full force and effect.
Liability of Council
SEC. 87. Each council shall be subject to all insurance assessments
or contributions levied prior to December 31, 1962.
Maintenance of Insurance after Suspension, Etc.
SEC. 88. (b1) Any member holding a certificate numbered without
a letter prefix other than letter Z and which certificate is in force and
who becomes under expulsion or suspension, ipso facto or other-
wise, may as an inactive insurance member continue his insurance in
force by payment in cash, as they become due, of the assessments or
contributions or additional assessments payable upon his certificate,
and on the first day of each month an automatic per capita tax of fifty
cents monthly except as otherwise provided in subsection (e) 10 of
Section 89 or subsection (h) 10 of Section 90 of the Rules of the Board
pertaining to the Administration of the Insurance Systems. The grace
period for the payment of such tax shall be the same as for the month-
ly assessments or contributions then or previously payable on the
certificate. Such payments shall be made to the Supreme Secretary.
(b2) A member having one or more certificates of insurance may
remain in good standing as an insurance member by payment of
council dues, per capita tax or other payments required by his coun-
cil and by maintaining one or more of his insurance certificates in
force either by cash payment of assessments or contributions or by
payment of the same under the automatic loan provisions or by main-
taining such certificates in force as paid-up or extended term insur-
ance.
(b3) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Supreme
Council may defer the making of actual entries regarding loans and
charges and any other matter, until after the dates set for such action,
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without nullifying the effectiveness of any provisions of the laws or
rules of the Board of Directors, provided the actual entries with
regard to any certificate shall be made annually. Further, the Supreme
Council may, by an equivalent single entry, anticipate month-to-
month entries as to any certificate for not to exceed twelve months,
subject to reversal in event of change of status.
Juvenile Insurance
(c1) The Board of Directors is authorized and empowered to adopt
proper rules and regulations and do all things necessary to issue juve-
nile insurance for the payment of death, annuity and other benefits
upon the lives of juveniles and to provide, fix and establish rates,
forms of applications, terms and conditions of juvenile certificates
and make such other provisions as it shall see fit concerning said
juveniles and the payment of benefits. The Board of Directors is fur-
ther authorized and empowered to adopt proper rules and regula-
tions and do all things necessary for the transfer of juveniles to insur-
ance membership in the Order.
(c2) Sections 71 to 83, inclusive, shall apply to juvenile certificates
except that during the juvenile period control of the certificates shall
not rest in the juvenile but shall be as provided in the Rules of the
Board in that regard.
(By action of the Supreme Council at its 1958 meeting, for-
mer Sections 89, 90 and 91 pertaining to Old System
Insurance, New System Insurance and Juvenile Insurance,
respectively, were deleted from the Laws of the Order and
established as “Rules of the Board of Directors pertaining to
the Administration of the Insurance Systems.”)
42 LAWS GOVERNING SUPREME COUNCIL
CHAPTER XIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Eligibility For Office
SEC. 92. (a) Only members who have been initiated in the first
three degrees of the Order shall be eligible for any office in subordi-
nate, State or Supreme councils, or in the Order. This shall not apply
to the first officers of a new subordinate council, or to medical exam-
iners.
State Deputies, Etc., May Declare Office Vacant
(b) A State, District or Territorial Deputy may declare any office in
a subordinate council vacant, where the officer fails or refuses to per-
form the duties of his office.
Elections
SEC. 93. In all cases of election to any office in the Order or its
branches, a majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary to elect;
except that where several of equal degree are to be chosen as direc-
tors, trustees, delegates, etc., a majority shall not be necessary, but all
shall be voted for on one ballot. No ballot containing names of more
or less candidates than there are places to be voted for shall be count-
ed, and those receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared
elected in order of the number of votes received and to the number
of places to be filled.
Past — Officers Entitled To Title Of
SEC. 94. Supreme Knights, State Deputies and Grand Knights com-
pleting at least one full term of any of said offices or having served
more than six full months of an unexpired term in any of said offices,
shall be entitled to the title and privileges thereof with the prefix
“Past” on retirement from the same, provided a member elected
Grand Knight of a council at its institution, or elected State Deputy
upon the organization of a State Council and holding until the end of
such term, shall have the same title and privileges as if he had filled a
full term. Also, a member shall have such title but not the privileges
in the council or jurisdiction to which he may subsequently transfer
his membership.
When Laws Take Effect
SEC. 95. All laws, amendments to laws or repeals passed at any
meeting of the Supreme Council, shall be valid and effectual only
after the expiration of sixty days from the day of said meeting, unless
otherwise provided by law.
The Supreme Knight, Supreme Secretary and Supreme Advocate
are hereby authorized and empowered to conform existing constitu-
tion and laws of the Order to the amendments adopted by the
Supreme Council or resolution of the Supreme Council.
Authority To Conform Laws To State Laws
SEC. 96. The Supreme Knight, Supreme Advocate and Supreme
Secretary are hereby authorized and empowered to cause such
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