§ 5311 Membership Consideration Determination

• •A company can give out memberships for free or charge money for them.
• •The company's rules or the board decides if memberships are free or cost money.
• •The rules can be changed if the company's articles or bylaws allow it.

A local gym wants to offer free memberships to kids under 12.

The gym's board can decide to give free memberships if their rules allow it. If they usually charge $20 a month, they can change it to free for kids because the rules say they can.