RSA 418:3 Representative Form of Government Defined.
Title: XXXVII - INSURANCE
Chapter: 418 - FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
I. A society has a representative form of government when the supreme governing body is an assembly composed of delegates elected directly by the members or at intermediate assemblies or conventions of members or their representatives, together with other delegates as may be prescribed in the society's laws.
(a) The assembly shall be elected and shall meet at least once every 4 years and shall elect a board of directors to conduct the business of the society between meetings of the assembly. Vacancies on the board of directors between elections may be filled in the manner prescribed by the society's laws.
(b) The elected delegates shall constitute a majority in number and shall not have less than 2/3 of the votes and not less than the number of votes required to amend th