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...ganized under this chapter other than a public benefit association. (I) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory entity trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, cooperative, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or co...

...(A) Principles of law and equity supplement this chapter unless displaced by a particular provision of this chapter. (B) A statute in this state governing a particular type of unincorporated nonprofit association prevails over an inconsistent provision in this chapter to the extent of the inconsistency. (C) This chapter supplements all regulatory laws that are applicable to nonprofit organizations operating ...

... the association has its main place of activities governs the internal affairs of the association.

...necessary or convenient to carry on its activities. (D) It may engage in profit-making activities, but any profits from those activities shall be used or set aside for the association's nonprofit purposes.

...e, or a beneficiary of a trust or contract. All property acquired by an unincorporated nonprofit association by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise shall be the absolute property of the association, unless it is otherwise specified in writing at the time of acquiring that property.

...it association, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, is solely the debt, obligation, or other liability of the association and does not become the debt, obligation, or other liability of a member or manager solely because the member acts as a member or the manager acts as a manager. A person's status as a member or a manager of an unincorporated nonprofit association does not prevent or restrict an...

...An unincorporated nonprofit association has the capacity to sue and be sued in its own name. A member or a manager of an unincorporated nonprofit association may assert a claim that the member or manager has against the association. An unincorporated nonprofit association may assert a claim that it has against a member or a manager of the association.

...All assets, property, funds, and rights or interests, at law or in equity, of any unincorporated nonprofit association shall be subject to judgment, execution, and other process. A money judgment against an unincorporated nonprofit association shall be enforced only against the association as an entity and shall not be enforceable against the property of any manager or member of the association.

...r an entity of the agent's type to transact business or exercise privileges in this state. The statement appointing an agent shall set forth the name of the unincorporated nonprofit association and the name and address in this state of the agent, including the street and number or other particular description, and shall otherwise be in the form that the secretary of state prescribes. The secretary of state sha...

...In an action or proceeding against an unincorporated nonprofit association, a summons and complaint or other process may be served on an agent authorized by appointment to receive service of process or a manager of the association or in any other manner authorized by the law of this state.

...An action or proceeding against an unincorporated nonprofit association does not abate merely because of a change in its members or managers.

...rwise provided by law, the venue of an action against an unincorporated nonprofit association brought in this state shall be determined under the statutes applicable to an action brought in this state against a nonprofit corporation.

...A member of an unincorporated nonprofit association is not an agent of the association solely by reason of being a member.

...ll, outside the ordinary course of its activities; (E) Dissolve under section 1745.50 of the Revised Code or merge or consolidate under section 1745.46 or 1745.461 of the Revised Code; (F) Undertake any other act outside the ordinary course of the association's activities if the association has annual gross receipts of less than twenty-five thousand dollars; (G) Determine the purposes of the association and, ...

...rt of a newsletter, magazine, or other publication regularly sent to members shall constitute a written notice or report if addressed or delivered to the member's address shown in the unincorporated nonprofit association's current list of members, or, in the case of members who are residents of the same household and who have the same address in the association's current list of members, if addressed or delive...

...corded in the association's membership records. (C) Unless the governing principles provide otherwise, all rights and privileges of a member in an unincorporated nonprofit association and its property shall cease on termination of membership. (D) Whenever the number of members of an unincorporated nonprofit association that, under the law or its governing principles, must have a specified number of members is...

...sident; (2) The manager or managers by action at a meeting, or a majority of the managers acting without a meeting; (3) The lesser of ten per cent of the voting members or twenty-five of the voting members, unless the governing principles specify for that purpose a smaller or larger proportion or number, but not in excess of fifty per cent of the voting members; (4) Any other officers or persons that the gover...

...e member's address as it appears on the records of the unincorporated nonprofit association. If sent by means of authorized communications equipment, that notice shall be sent to the address furnished by the voting member for transmissions by authorized communications equipment. Notice of adjournment of a meeting need not be given if the place, if any, and the time to which it is adjourned and the procedure by ...

...shall be filed with or entered upon the records of the meeting. A transmission by authorized communications equipment that contains a waiver is a writing for purposes of this division. (B) If a member or manager attends a meeting described in division (A) of this section without protesting prior to or at the commencement of the meeting, then the lack of proper notice shall be considered to be a waiver by the m...

...for the authorization or taking of any action voted upon by the members, except that no action required by law or by the governing principles to be authorized or taken by a specified proportion or number of the voting members or of any class of voting members may be authorized or taken by a lesser proportion or number.

...ote, consent, waiver, release, or other action. (B) Unless the governing principles provide otherwise, voting at elections and votes on other matters may be conducted by mail or by the use of authorized communications equipment. (C) Participation by a member in a meeting through the use of any of the means of communication described in division (B) of this section constitutes presence in person of that member ...

... to the authorization or taking of any action by the members or the managers the governing principles require the vote, consent, waiver, or release of a greater proportion or number of the members or the managers than that otherwise required by law with respect to that authorization or taking of the action, the provisions of the governing principles shall control.

...The authorization or taking of any action by vote, consent, waiver, or release of the members may be rescinded or revoked by the same vote, consent, waiver, or release as at the time of rescission or revocation would be required to authorize or take that action in the first instance, subject to the contract rights of other persons.

...shall be filed with or entered upon the records of the unincorporated nonprofit association. Any certificate with respect to the authorization or taking of any action described in this division that is required to be filed in the office of the secretary of state shall recite that the authorization or taking of that action was in a writing or writings approved and signed as specified in this section. (B) Any t...

...(A) A person becomes a member of an unincorporated nonprofit association and may be suspended, dismissed, or expelled in accordance with the association's governing principles. If there are no applicable governing principles, a person may become a member or be suspended, dismissed, or expelled from an unincorporated nonprofit association by a vote of its members. A person may not be admitted as a member of an ...