[CCWG-ACCT] Concept of some form of "independent" member

Dr Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.NA
Fri Jul 17 11:35:21 UTC 2015


Are UAs legal persons?

el

On 2015-07-17 13:13 , Gregory, Holly wrote:
> Natural persons (humans) are legal persons
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> Greg
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> (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.)
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> 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).
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> Can you expand on this please?
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> On 17/07/15 09:47, Greg Shatan wrote:
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>> hands of the community, and to have these powers as a matter of right.
>> Members must be legal persons.
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