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ICFA Member Types
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From the ICFA Bylaws
ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP
Section 1.
Qualifications: Regular membership in this association shall be open to any person, partnership, firm or corporation primarily engaged in cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium operations and the memorialization and final disposition of human remains, and which shall subscribe to the association's Bylaws and Code of Ethics. Regular membership is also open to any person, firm or corporation engaged in providing retail services or products relating to dead human remains including but not limited to funeral directors, cremationists, florists, and retail monument dealers, not affiliated with a cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium, and which shall subscribe to the association's Bylaws and Code of Ethics.
Section 2.
a. Classes: The membership in this association shall consist of the following classes:
(1) Regular member
(2) Associate member
(3) Supplier member
(4) Professional member
(5) Life and honorary members
(6) Mortuary school student/trainee members
(7) Music License members
b. Regular member:
(1) Any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, municipality, and religious and fraternal organization, being profit or not-for-profit, or any other entity owning, controlling or managing a cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium, for the memorialization and final disposition of human remains may become a regular member of this association. Any person, partnership, firm or corporation engaged in providing retail services or products relating to dead human remains including but not limited to funeral directors, cremationists, florists, and retail monument dealers, not affiliated with a cemetery, mausoleum, or columbarium, or any other entity owning, controlling or managing any of these service providers, may become a regular member of this association.
(2) Each regular member shall designate no more than two (2) individuals, who are engaged in any of the businesses described in Section 2b(1), to represent, vote and act for the member in the affairs of the association. If a second individual is designated, the regular member shall pay additional dues for that individual.
(3) If any individual, firm, corporation or other form of organization under this membership class owns or controls the operation of more than five (5) regular members, the total number of votes permitted to be cast by such regular member at any election or on matters upon which votes are cast shall be limited to five (5) votes for up to 50 regular members so owned or controlled. Such entities shall be entitled to additional votes based on the following ratio: ownership or control of 51 to 75 regular members: a total of 6 votes; 76 to 100: 7 votes; 101 to 150: 8 votes, 151 to 200: 9 votes; 201 and over: 10 votes; and thereafter one additional vote per one hundred additional regular members.
c. Other members. The following membership classes shall have no vote or be eligible to hold office in this association.
(1) Associate member: Any individual, firm, corporation, association, municipality, and religious and fraternal organization affiliated with a regular member or a supplier member, may become an associate member of this association upon recommendation of a regular member. In the event that an associate member shall leave employment or active affiliation with the regular member or supplier member who recommended that person for membership, then that person's associate membership shall immediately cease and terminate. Nothing in the preceding sentence precludes a person from filing a new application upon becoming affiliated with another member.
(2) Supplier member: Any individual, firm or corporation supplying any materials or services used by a regular member may become a supplier member of this association.
(3) Professional member: Any individual, firm or corporation offering or providing professional services, such as accounting, architectural, legal, and others to regular members may become a professional member of this association.
(4) Life and honorary members: Life and honorary memberships may be conferred upon individuals at such time and under such terms as the Board of Directors shall determine.
(5) Mortuary school student/trainee members: Any individual enrolled in an accredited school of mortuary science, and any graduate of an accredited school of mortuary science seeking employment in the industry may become a student/trainee member of this association.
(6) Music License members: Any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other organization owning, controlling or managing a funeral home, cemetery, combination operation, mausoleum, columbarium or other retail business providing funeral or memorial services at which copyrighted music is played, may become a Music License member of this association.
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