Fraternal Benefit Society Charters

Umsted, Deputy Attorney General,

You have requested this department to furnish you an opinion as to whether articles of incorporation of a fraternal benefit society, organized under the Act of July 17, 1935, P. L. 1092, 40’ PS §§1051 et seq., may be amended.

*333The Act of July 17, 1935, P. L. 1092, 40 PS §§1051 et seq., does not specifically provide for authority to amend the articles of incorporation to change the charter of a fraternal benefit society formed thereunder. It does, under section 37, 40 PS §1087, provide for change of principal office of place of business within the Commonwealth…