Section 885.159 - Termination of Authority Under Preliminary Certificate of Authority(a) Unless a fraternal benefit society has qualified under this subchapter, a preliminary certificate of authority granted under Section 885. 157 is void on the first anniversary of the date the certificate is issued.(b) The department, on cause shown, may extend the period prescribed by Subsection (a). An extension may not exceed one year.Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. 6/1/2003.