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Email: Chapter 36, Article 13, Section 20

§36-13-20. Approval by members.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in the governing principles, a decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association shall have the approval of the majority of membership interests participating in a vote to:

(1) Suspend, dismiss or expel a member;

(2) Select or dismiss an administrator;

(3) Adopt, amend, or repeal the governing principles;

(4) Sell, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association's property;

(5) Dissolve the decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association under §36-13-14 of this code;

(6) Undertake any other act outside the ordinary course of the decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association's activities;

(7) Determine the policy and purpose of the decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association.

(b) A decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association shall have the approval of its members in accordance with its governing principles to perform any acts or exercise a right that the governing principles require to be approved by members.

(c) Unless otherwise provided for in the governing principles, membership interest in a decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association shall be calculated in proportion to a member's voting rights within the nonprofit association.