California Code
Corporations Code - CORP
TITLE 3 - UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS

PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1 - Definitions

Section 18000. - 18000. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions...

Section 18003. - 18003. “Board” means the board of directors or other governing...

Section 18005. - 18005. “Director” means a natural person serving as a member...

Section 18008. - 18008. “Governing document” means a constitution, articles of association, bylaws,...

Section 18010. - 18010. “Governing principles” means the principles stated in an unincorporated...

Section 18015. - 18015. (a) If the governing principles of an unincorporated association...

Section 18020. - 18020. (a) “Nonprofit association” means an unincorporated association with a...

Section 18025. - 18025. “Officer” means a natural person serving as an unincorporated...

Section 18030. - 18030. “Person” includes a natural person, corporation, partnership, or other...

Section 18035. - 18035. (a) “Unincorporated association” means an unincorporated group of two...

CHAPTER 2 - Application of Title

Section 18055. - 18055. This title does not apply to any of the...

Section 18060. - 18060. If a statute specific to a particular type of...

Section 18065. - 18065. Except to the extent this title provides a specific...

Section 18070. - 18070. A provision of this title, insofar as it is...

CHAPTER 3 - Property

Section 18100. - 18100. The interest of a member in an unincorporated association...

Section 18105. - 18105. An unincorporated association may, in its name, acquire, hold,...

Section 18110. - 18110. Property acquired by or for an unincorporated association is...

Section 18115. - 18115. The acquisition, transfer, or encumbrance of an interest in...

Section 18120. - 18120. (a) An unincorporated association may record in a county...

Section 18122. - 18122. An unincorporated association holding property for charitable purposes shall...

Section 18125. - 18125. No limitation on the power of an unincorporated association...

Section 18130. - 18130. After all of the known debts and liabilities of...

Section 18135. - 18135. (a) Notwithstanding Section 18260, a cause of action against...

CHAPTER 4 - Designation of Agent for Service of Process

Section 18200. - 18200. (a) An unincorporated association may file with the Secretary...

Section 18205. - 18205. (a) The Secretary of State shall mark each statement...

Section 18210. - 18210. (a) An agent designated by an unincorporated association for...

Section 18215. - 18215. Between the first day of October and the first...

Section 18220. - 18220. If designation of an agent for the purpose of...

CHAPTER 5 - Liability and Enforcement of Judgments

Section 18250. - 18250. Except as otherwise provided by law, an unincorporated association...

Section 18260. - 18260. A money judgment against an unincorporated association, whether organized...

Section 18270. - 18270. (a) A judgment creditor of a member, director, officer,...

CHAPTER 6 - Governance

ARTICLE 1 - Reserved

Section 18300. - 18300. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact...

ARTICLE 2 - Termination or Suspension of Membership

Section 18310. - 18310. (a) Unless otherwise provided by an unincorporated association’s governing...

Section 18320. - 18320. (a) This section only applies if membership in an...

ARTICLE 3 - Member Voting

Section 18330. - 18330. Except as otherwise provided by statute or by an...

ARTICLE 4 - Amendment of Governing Documents

Section 18340. - 18340. If an unincorporated association’s governing principles do not provide...

ARTICLE 5 - Merger

Section 18350. - 18350. The following definitions govern the construction of this article:...

Section 18360. - 18360. An unincorporated association may merge with a domestic or...

Section 18370. - 18370. A merger involving an unincorporated association is subject to...

Section 18380. - 18380. (a) A merger pursuant to this article has the...

Section 18390. - 18390. If, as a consequence of merger, a surviving entity...

Section 18400. - 18400. A bequest, devise, gift, grant, or promise contained in...

ARTICLE 6 - Dissolution

Section 18410. - 18410. An unincorporated association may be dissolved by any of...

Section 18420. - 18420. Promptly after commencement of dissolution of an unincorporated association,...

PART 2 - NONPROFIT ASSOCIATIONS

CHAPTER 1 - Liability

Section 18605. - 18605. A member, director, or agent of a nonprofit association...

Section 18610. - 18610. A member of a nonprofit association is not liable...

Section 18615. - 18615. A director, officer, or agent of a nonprofit association...

Section 18620. - 18620. (a) A member, director, officer, or agent of a...

Section 18630. - 18630. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a member...

Section 18640. - 18640. Nothing in this chapter limits application of the Uniform...

CHAPTER 3 - Medical Associations

Section 21200. - 21200. Any unincorporated association that is an organized medical society...

CHAPTER 4 - Insignia

Section 21300. - 21300. As used in this chapter, the following terms have...

Section 21301. - 21301. Any association, the principles and activities of which are...

Section 21302. - 21302. An association shall not be permitted to register any...

Section 21303. - 21303. Application for registration, alteration, or cancellation shall be made...

Section 21304. - 21304. The Secretary of State shall charge and collect a...

Section 21305. - 21305. Upon the registration, the Secretary of State shall issue...

Section 21306. - 21306. The Secretary of State shall keep a properly indexed...

Section 21307. - 21307. Any person who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses for...

Section 21308. - 21308. Any court of competent jurisdiction may restrain by injunction:...

Section 21309. - 21309. In any action under Section 21308 it is not...

Section 21310. - 21310. The use of the name or insignia of any...

CHAPTER 5 - Death Benefit Payments by Fraternal Societies

Section 21400. - 21400. Whenever any fraternal society or lodge, other than a...

Section 21401. - 21401. Any fraternal society or lodge which makes any payment...

PART 3 - JOINT STOCK ASSOCIATIONS

Section 22000. - 22000. Every person who, without being authorized so to do,...

Section 22001. - 22001. Every director, officer, or agent of any joint stock...

Section 22002. - 22002. (a) Every director, officer, or agent of any joint...

Section 22003. - 22003. For the purposes of this part every director of...

PART 4 - REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS

Section 23000. - 23000. “Real estate investment trust” as used in this part...

Section 23001. - 23001. No shareowner of a real estate investment trust shall...

Section 23002. - 23002. Section 23001 shall apply to any real estate investment...

Section 23003. - 23003. A real estate investment trust shall not issue any...

Section 23004. - 23004. Section 23001 shall apply with respect to all liabilities,...

Section 23005. - 23005. The provisions of Sections 1400 and 1402 governing bankruptcy...

Section 23006. - 23006. (a) The following entities may be merged pursuant to...

PART 5 - LIABILITY OF DIRECTOR OR OFFICER OF NONPROFIT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Section 24001.5. - 24001.5. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the services...