(1) Articles of incorporation or bylaws may establish criteria or procedures for admission of members.

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 65.131

  • Articles of incorporation: means the articles of incorporation described in ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Bylaws: means a set of provisions for managing and regulating a corporation's affairs that the corporation must adopt under ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: means a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Entity: means a domestic corporation, foreign corporation, business corporation and foreign business corporation, profit and nonprofit unincorporated association, corporation sole, business trust, partnership, two or more persons that have a joint or common economic interest, any state, the United States, a federally recognized Native American or American Indian tribal government and any foreign government. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Individual: means a natural person, including the guardian of an incompetent individual. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Member: means a person that is entitled, under a domestic corporation's or foreign corporation's articles of incorporation or bylaws, to exercise any of the rights described in ORS § 65. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Membership: means the rights and obligations a member has under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 65.001
  • Person: means an individual or an entity. See Oregon Statutes 65.001

(2) A person may not be admitted as a member without consent of the person, express or implied.

(3) A corporation may not issue a document that entitles an unidentified individual or entity that possesses the document to membership in the corporation. [1989 c.1010 § 39; 2019 c.174 § 28]