Any incorporated or unincorporated benefit and relief association, the membership and insurance in which are restricted to the ministers, priests, rabbis, rectors, vicars, pastors, or readers of any conference, presbytery, diocese, convention or synod or any other similar body of a religious organization (a portion of whose territory is located in the State of California) and the employees of such religious body may procure a certificate of exemption from the commissioner if it does not provide for a death benefit (life and/or accidental death insurance) greater than two thousand dollars ($2,000) or a disability benefit greater than two thousand dollars ($2,000), payable in any 12-month period; provided it complies with all applicable provisions of this article.

(Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1117.)