Sec. 33-1056. Rules for membership.
Sec. 33-1056. Rules for membership. (a) Membership shall be governed by such
rules of admission, retention, withdrawal and expulsion as the bylaws shall prescribe,
provided all such bylaws shall be reasonable, germane to the purposes of the corporation,
and equally enforced as to all members.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or the bylaws, another entity, foreign or domestic, may become a member of a corporation.
(c) Membership may be limited to persons who are members in good standing of
another corporation, organization or association, if so provided in the certificate of incorporation. If membership is so limited, the certificate of incorporation may provide that
failure on the part of any such member to keep in such good standing in such other
corporation, organization or association shall be sufficient cause for expulsion.
(d) Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or bylaws, a member may not voluntarily or involuntarily transfer his membership or any rights arising
therefrom.
(e) Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or bylaws, membership shall be terminated by death, voluntary withdrawal or expulsion, and thereafter all
rights and privileges of the member in the corporation and its property shall cease.
(P.A. 96-256, S. 38, 209.)
History: P.A. 96-256 effective January 1, 1997.
Annotations to former section 33-459:
Cited. 188 C. 531.
Subsec. (a):
Cited. 188 C. 531.
Where corporate purpose is "to provide facilities for the serving of luncheon or other meals to members," by laws
excluding or authorizing exclusion of women as members or guests would be invalid. 33 CS 150.
Annotations to present section:
Private nonstick corporation of lakefront cottage and home owners violated statutory provision that bylaws be "equally
enforced as to all members" by terminating plaintiff cottage owners' membership due to winter occupancy of their cottages
in violation of a bylaw and by not enforcing that bylaw against all other nonconforming uses of property. 46 CS 265. Bylaw
that calls for expulsion for "conduct inconsistent with a gentleman and a man of honor" is not undefined and vague and
therefore not unreasonable. Fact that expulsion is only penalty available under this bylaw does not render it unreasonable
on its face and plaintiff's argument that this bylaw is not germane to purposes of the society fails where plaintiff incorrectly
equates a principle actuating a nonprofit organization with a purpose of the organization and moreover where the members
could reasonably have believed that one of the society's "immutable principles" is germane to the bylaw. Id., 411.