5751 - Classes and qualifications of membership.
SUBCHAPTER E MEMBERS Sec. 5751. Classes and qualifications of membership. 5752. Organization on a stock share basis. 5753. Membership certificates. 5754. Members grouped in local units. 5755. Time of holding meetings of members. 5756. Quorum. 5757. Action by members. 5758. Voting rights of members. 5759. Voting and other action by proxy. 5760. Voting by corporations. 5761. Determination of members of record. 5762. Judges of election. 5763. Consent of members in lieu of meeting. 5764. Appointment of custodian of corporation on deadlock or other cause. 5764.1. Actions by members to enforce a secondary right (Repealed). 5765. Reduction of membership below stated number. 5766. Termination and transfer of membership. 5767. Voting powers and other rights of certain securityholders and other entities. Enactment. Subchapter E was added as Subchapter D December 21, 1988, P.L.1444, No.177, effective October 1, 1989, and was relettered to Subchapter E December 19, 1990, P.L.834, No.198, effective immediately. § 5751. Classes and qualifications of membership. (a) General rule.--Membership in a nonprofit corporation shall be of such classes, and shall be governed by such rules of admission, retention, suspension and expulsion, as bylaws adopted by the members shall prescribe, except that all such rules shall be reasonable, germane to the purpose or purposes of the corporation, and equally enforced as to all members of the same class. Unless otherwise provided by a bylaw adopted by the members, there shall be one class of members whose voting and other rights and interests shall be equal. (b) Corporations without voting members.--Where the articles provide that the corporation shall have no members, as such, or where a nonprofit corporation has under its bylaws or in fact no members entitled to vote on a matter, any provision of this article or any other provision of law requiring notice to, the presence of, or the vote, consent or other action by members of the corporation in connection with such matter shall be satisfied by notice to, the presence of or the vote, consent or other action by the board of directors or other body of the corporation. Cross References. Section 5751 is referred to in section 5504 of this title.