Except as otherwise provided in its governing principles, an unincorporated nonprofit association shall have the approval of its members to do any of the following:

Terms Used In Ohio Code 1745.18

  • Governing principles: means all agreements, whether oral, in a record, or implied from its established practices, or any combination of them, that govern the purpose or operation of an unincorporated nonprofit association and the rights and obligations of its members and managers. See Ohio Code 1745.05
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Manager: means a person, irrespective of the person's designation as director or other designation, that is responsible, alone or in concert with others, for the management of an unincorporated nonprofit association as stated in division (E) of section 1745. See Ohio Code 1745.05
  • Member: means a person that, under the governing principles of an unincorporated nonprofit association, is entitled to participate in the selection of persons authorized to manage the affairs of the association or in the adoption of the policies and activities of the association. See Ohio Code 1745.05
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Unincorporated nonprofit association: means an unincorporated organization, consisting of two or more members joined by mutual consent pursuant to an agreement, written, oral, or inferred from conduct, for one or more common, nonprofit purposes. See Ohio Code 1745.05

(A) Admit, suspend, dismiss, or expel a member;

(B) Select or dismiss a manager;

(C) Adopt, amend, or repeal its governing principles;

(D) Sell, lease, exchange, or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the association’s property, with or without the association’s goodwill, outside the ordinary course of its activities;

(E) Dissolve under section 1745.50 of the Revised Code or merge or consolidate under section 1745.46 or 1745.461 of the Revised Code;

(F) Undertake any other act outside the ordinary course of the association’s activities if the association has annual gross receipts of less than twenty-five thousand dollars;

(G) Determine the purposes of the association and, if the association has annual gross receipts of less than twenty-five thousand dollars, determine the policies of the association;

(H) Do any other act or exercise any right that requires action by the members under the governing principles.

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