Chapter 1 - Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations
- Section 10-3B-1 Short title
This chapter may be cited as the Alabama Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act. ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
- Section 10-3B-3 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 10-3B-4 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, ...
- Section 10-3B-5 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 ...
- Section 10-3B-6 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 ...
- Section 10-3B-7 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 ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
- Section 10-3B-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. ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
- Section 10-3B-11 Appointment of agent to receive service of process
(a) A nonprofit association may file in the office of the probate judge of the county where the association has its principal office a ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
- Section 10-3B-13 Venue
Venue shall be as is provided in Section 6-3-6, as may be amended from time to time. ...
- Section 10-3B-14 Summons and compaint; 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 ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
- Section 10-3B-17 Savings clause
This chapter does not affect an action or proceeding commenced or right accrued before this chapter takes effect. ...
- Section 10-3B-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 ...
