2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 57 - Officers, Directors and Members
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            (Repealed).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.