North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 59B Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-1.   Short title
  This Chapter may be cited as the Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act. (2006-226, s. 1.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-2.   Definitions
  In this Chapter: (1) "Member" means a person who, under the rules or practices of a nonprofit association, may participate in the selection of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-3.   Supplementary general principles of law and equity
  Principles of law and equity supplement this Chapter unless displaced by a particular provision of it. (2006-226, s. 1.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-4.   Title to property; choice of law
  Real and personal property in this State may be acquired, held, encumbered, and transferred by a nonprofit association, whether or not the nonprofit association...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-5.   Real and personal property; nonprofit association as devisee or beneficiary
  (a) A nonprofit association is a legal entity separate from its members for the purposes of acquiring, holding, encumbering, and transferring real and personal...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-6.   Statement of authority as to real property
  (a) A nonprofit association may execute and record a statement of authority to transfer an estate or interest in real property in the name...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-7.   Liability of members or other persons
  (a) A nonprofit association is a legal entity separate from its members for the purposes of determining and enforcing rights, duties, and liabilities. (b)...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-8.   Capacity to assert and defend; standing
  (a) A nonprofit association, in its name, may institute, defend, intervene, or participate in a judicial, administrative, or other governmental proceeding or in an...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-9.   Effect of judgment or order
  A judgment or order against a nonprofit association is not by itself a judgment or order against a member, a person referred to as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-10.   Disposition of personal property of inactive nonprofit association
  If a nonprofit association has been inactive for three years or longer, or a different period specified in a document of the nonprofit association,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-11.   Appointment of agent to receive service of process
  (a) A nonprofit association may file in the office of the Secretary of State a statement appointing an agent authorized to receive service of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-12.   Claim not abated by change
  A claim for relief against a nonprofit association does not abate merely because of a change in its members or persons authorized to manage...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-13.   Venue
  For purposes of venue, a nonprofit association is a resident of a county in which it has an office or maintains a place of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-14.   Uniformity of application and construction
  This Chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 59B-15.   Effect as to conveyances by trustees; prior deeds validated
  (a) Nothing in this Chapter changes the law with reference to the holding and conveyance of land by the trustees of churches under Chapter...

Last modified: March 23, 2014