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The states' charitable solicitation acts often define the word membership or member. The principal purpose, when this definition is given, is to define the term in relation to the exclusion for solicitations that are confined to the membership of the soliciting organization.³⁰

The statute may define the term membership to mean those persons to whom, for payment of dues, fees, assessments, and the like, an organization provides services and confers a bona fide right, privilege, professional standing, honor, or other direct benefit, in addition to the right to vote, elect officers, or hold offices.

This type of statute is likely to add the point that the concept of membership does not extend to those persons who are granted a membership upon making a contribution as the result of a solicitation.