Recognition based on the following criteria...
PMA Power Advisors need to be pre-approved before they will be considered for the role of an Advisor. Pre-approval takes into consideration factors such as ethics, motivation and professional skills. Once pre-approved PMA Power Advisors need to complete two courses. These include the "A Guide to Starting your own PMA" course, and the "Official PMA Advisors Certification" course. Advisors receive ongoing weekly training to increase their skills and understanding. PMA Power is committed to excellence and the raising of standards for its Advisors. The Advisors that are listed here have all completed their PMA Advisors Certification requirements.
Certified Advisor
James is committed to helping others to establish and grow their PMA's through positive influence, vision, and creative solutions...
A Certified PMA Power Advisor is someone who has put in the time and effort to meet PMA Power's certification requirements. This includes pre-consideration, being pre-approved, and completing two courses, "A beginner's guide to starting your own PMA," and "The Official PMA Advisors Certification." PMA Power offers ongoing weekly training for its Certified Advisors to facilitate ongoing growth, and ellevating standards. Certified PMA Power Advisors are required to "walk the talk," by setting up, and owning a PMA of their own.
A PMA is a Private Membership Association. The various types of private associations operate in a manner as to keep private business and private activities a private contractual matter between the association and the members. Keep in mind that law says "no state can pass any law that impairs the obligation of contract". The association is founded upon the principle that we have an unalienable right to associate. The Supreme Court has always held that the right to associate is synonymous with the right to assemble. An association is simply a group of men and women collectively exercising their right to associate in private.
Private Associations are commonly known as Private Membership Association, Private Education Association, Private Health Association, Private Ministerial Association (Faith based organization or FBO), Private Drinking Club, Private Social Club, Private Fraternal Organization, Home Owner Association, and others. Regardless of the style of private association, they are all forms of a PMA since you technically don't have an association without members to associate anyway.
Examples may be, Drinking is allowed inside “private clubs” in “dry counties” in states of The united States of America where the sale of alcohol to the public is restricted or illegal; smoking is allowed inside “cigar bars” or "private clubs" in states having public laws prohibiting smoking in government buildings and in buildings open to the public; What may be illegal activity under statutes or public law are completely lawful activities in private. Those private venues have the same protections as private activities within your own home and those activities are governed by your own rules, not public law.
The short answer is No. The protections your association has the ability to invoke will be determined by your founding documents. Likewise, all of the protections that are waived or surrendered, either knowingly or unknowingly will be determined within your founding documents. Documents that are not properly drafted, such as statutory compliant documents, will forfeit some or all of your private domain protections. Unfortunately most associations are founded as "statutory compliant" all because of what the founders of the association didn't know at the time the association was formed. There is no more important decision you'll make than the preparation of your founding documents. That is where you will secure or give up your protections of the private domain.
There are several pathways:
1. Refer to the website at https://www.getyourpma.com.
2. Speak to a Certified Advisor. You can select an Advisor for our Directory
of Certified Advisors.
3. Do the course, "A Beginners Guide to Starting your own PMA," at https://courses.thenextsky.net/courses/my-pma
You can join our community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/PrivateAssociation. You will find a wealth of information there.
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