Ethics Advisory Opinion No. The incorporated association in question has both corporate and noncorporate members.
All members pay dues to the association and receive equal services from the association.
The first question is whether Ethics Advisory Opinion No. 163 applies to any corporate member of the solicitable class of the incorporated association described in the request letter. Stated another way, the solicitable class of an incorporated association includes the solicitable class of each of its member corporations. That conclusion applies to the solicitable class of any corporate member of the incorporated association described in the request letter. The other questions raised in the request letter have to do with the use of funds that the general-purpose committee receives from corporate members of the solicitable class. The purposes for which the general-purpose committee may use corporate funds are limited to the purposes described in section 253.100.