Ohio Code 1745.20 – Membership
(A) An unincorporated nonprofit association shall maintain a record of its members containing the name and address of each member and, if members are classified, the class to which the member belongs.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1745.20
- 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
- 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
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Ohio Code 1745.05
- 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
(B) A member of an unincorporated nonprofit association may be suspended, dismissed, or expelled as provided in division (A) of section 1745.29 of the Revised Code or may resign as provided in division (A) of section 1745.30 of the Revised Code. Upon the suspension or termination of membership, that fact and the date of the suspension or termination shall be recorded in the association’s membership records.
(C) Unless the governing principles provide otherwise, all rights and privileges of a member in an unincorporated nonprofit association and its property shall cease on termination of membership.
(D) Whenever the number of members of an unincorporated nonprofit association that, under the law or its governing principles, must have a specified number of members is reduced below the specified number, the unincorporated nonprofit association shall not be required because of that reduction to cease carrying on its activities, but the continuing members may fill all vacancies.
(E) Unless otherwise provided in the governing principles of an unincorporated nonprofit association, all members have the same membership rights and privileges.
(F) All members of an unincorporated nonprofit association shall exercise their membership rights and privileges consistent with the obligation of good faith and fair dealing.