Greg I think this is incorrect. I find it hard to imagine a corporation (and, particularly a non-profit corporation) which is required by law to restrict membership to legal persons in this way, that is to *require* members to be legal persons. I cannot believe US law is so fundamentally different here -- members of a corporation may normally be either natural persons or legal persons unless there are explicit restrictions in the Articles, which is a matter of choice, not compulsion. (I can imagine a non-profit CHOOSING to restrict membership to one or the other but I can't imagine any statutory requirement of this nature.) A trade association MIGHT restrict membership to legal persons: e.g. the Association of Incorporated Widget Makers (fictitious) may only allow incorporated makes of widgets; however it would be less unexpected to see non-profits expecting members to be natural persons only (e.g. the American Radio Relay League see http://www.arrl.org/arrl-by-laws). Can you expand on this please? On 17/07/15 09:47, Greg Shatan wrote:
hands of the community, and to have these powers as a matter of right. Members must be legal persons.