O.C.G.A.
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
(a) The articles or bylaws may establish criteria or procedures for admission of members.
(b) No person shall be admitted as a member without his or her consent.
History
(Code 1981, § 14-3-601, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 508, § 68.)
Annotations
COMMENT This section is taken from the Model Act. Section 14-3-302(16) permits nonprofit corporations to admit members and to establish conditions for membership. Any person (as broadly defined in section 14-3-140(23) to include both individuals and
entities) may be a member. Under subsection (b), however, a person cannot become a member without that person’s express or implied consent. Consent may be implied, for example, by acceptance of membership benefits knowing that the benefits are offered only to members. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Nguyen v. Tran, 287 Ga. App. 888, 652 S.E.2d 881 (2007).
Notes of Decisions
Gregory Vaughn v. Windfield Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. (Ga. Ct. App. 2025).
· cites it 4× “OCGA § 14-3-601 (b), which applies to nonprofit corporations, provides that “[n]o person shall be admitted as a member [of a nonprofit corporation] without his or her consent.”
Nguyen v. Tran, 652 S.E.2d 881 (Ga. Ct. App. 2007).
· cites it 2× “7 See OCGA § 14-3-601 (a) (articles or bylaws “may” establish criteria or procedures for admission of members); OCGA § 14-3-602 (“[e]xcept as provided in its articles or bylaws,” a corporation may admit members for no consideration); OCGA§ 14-3-610 (giving members right to vote…”
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