Dinesh Prabhu
Please let me know whether Associate Member can contest elections in Housing Societies for Managing Committee Member.
Please email me relevant extracts from Bye Laws or MCS Act 1960 to support your opinion.
I C Naik
Section 24(2) [relevant part extracted below] empowers societies to confer members’ rights to Associate member by specifying such rights in bye Laws.
An associate member, may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (8) of section 27, have such privileges and rights and be subject to such liabilities of a member, as may be specified in the by-laws of the society.
So look in to bye-laws to find the answer.