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Board has inherent power to suspend club members

Board has inherent power to suspend club members

Board has inherent power to suspend club members

The board of directors of a nonprofit sportsmen’s club has inherent power to suspend an uncooperative member, even where the member has survived a membership vote to dismiss him, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has held. It has affirmed a trial court decision affirming the member’s suspension and later expulsion when he failed to properly renew his membership. John Mark Muller was membership secretary and procurement officer of the Northern Chester County Sportsmen’s Club when he began to buy items and cancel contracts without board approval and in some cases in direct opposition to instructions in 2014. He claimed he had authority to do what he saw fit because he was “running the club...

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