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<div>Natural persons (humans) are legal persons<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org on behalf of Nigel Roberts<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 17, 2015 05:51:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> accountability-cross-community@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Concept of some form of "independent" member<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Greg<br>
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I think this is incorrect. I find it hard to imagine a corporation (and, <br>
particularly a non-profit corporation) which is required by law to <br>
restrict membership to legal persons in this way, that is to *require* <br>
members to be legal persons.<br>
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I cannot believe US law is so fundamentally different here -- members of <br>
a corporation may normally be either natural persons or legal persons <br>
unless there are explicit restrictions in the Articles, which is a <br>
matter of choice, not compulsion.<br>
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(I can imagine a non-profit CHOOSING to restrict membership to one or <br>
the other but I can't imagine any statutory requirement of this nature.)<br>
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A trade association MIGHT restrict membership to legal persons: e.g. the <br>
Association of Incorporated Widget Makers (fictitious) may only allow <br>
incorporated makes of widgets; however it would be less unexpected to <br>
see non-profits expecting members to be natural persons only (e.g. the <br>
American Radio Relay League see <a href="http://www.arrl.org/arrl-by-laws">http://www.arrl.org/arrl-by-laws</a>).<br>
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Can you expand on this please?<br>
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On 17/07/15 09:47, Greg Shatan wrote:<br>
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> hands of the community, and to have these powers as a matter of right.<br>
> Members must be legal persons.<br>
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