36-21A-5. Association defined.For the purposes of this chapter, an association is any body of persons united and acting together without a charter, but upon the methods and forms used by incorporated bodies for the prosecution of some common enterprise. It is an unincorporated society and not a partnership. It is a body of persons invested with some, yet not full, corporate rights and powers. Source: SL 1992, ch 273, §5.
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