Code of Alabama - Title 10A: Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code - Chapter 17 - Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations

• Section 10A-17-1.01 Short title
  This chapter together with applicable provisions of Chapter 1 may be cited as the Alabama Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Law.
• Section 10A-17-1.02 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 persons...
• Section 10A-17-1.03 Supplementary general principles of law and equity
  Principles of law and equity supplement this chapter unless specifically displaced by a particular provision of it.
• Section 10A-17-1.04 Governance
  (a) A nonprofit association may adopt written rules for its regulation, management, governance and dissolution. (b) As to matters not addressed by written rules, the...
• Section 10A-17-1.05 Real and personal property; nonprofit association as legatee, devisee, or beneficiary
  (a) Unless prohibited or otherwise limited by its written rules or governing documents, a nonprofit association in its name may acquire, hold, encumber, or transfer...
• Section 10A-17-1.06 Statement of authority as to real property
  (a) A nonprofit association shall execute and record a statement of authority to transfer an estate or interest in real property in the name of...
• Section 10A-17-1.07 Liability in tort and contract
  (a) A nonprofit association is a legal entity separate from its members for the purposes of determining and enforcing rights, duties, and liabilities in contract...
• Section 10A-17-1.08 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 arbitration,...
• Section 10A-17-1.09 Effect of judgment or order
  A judgment or order against a nonprofit association is not by itself a judgment or order against a member.
• Section 10A-17-1.10 Disposition of personal property of inactive or dissolved nonprofit association
  If a nonprofit association has been inactive for five years or longer, or has been dissolved, a person in possession or control of personal property...
• Section 10A-17-1.11 Appointment of agent to receive service of process
  (a) A nonprofit association may deliver to the Secretary of State for filing a statement appointing an agent authorized to receive service of process. (b)...
• Section 10A-17-1.12 Claim not abated by change of members or offices
  A claim for relief against a nonprofit association does not abate merely because of a change in its members or persons authorized to manage the...
• Section 10A-17-1.13 Venue
  Venue shall be as is provided in Section 6-3-6, as may be amended from time to time.
• Section 10A-17-1.14 Summons and complaint; service on whom
  In an action or proceeding against a nonprofit association, a summons and complaint shall be served on an agent authorized by appointment in Section 10A-17-1.11...
• Section 10A-17-1.15 Transition concerning real and personal property
  (a) If, before January 1, 1996, an estate or interest in real or personal property was purportedly transferred to a nonprofit association, on January 1,...
• Section 10A-17-1.16 Other acts not repealed
  The following sections and parts of sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended, are not repealed by this chapter: (1) Sections 2-10-1 through...
• Section 10A-17-1.17 Savings clause
  This chapter does not affect an action or proceeding commenced or right accrued before this chapter takes effect.
• Section 10A-17-1.18 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 chapter...

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