Michael Late Benedum Chapter

Annual chapter membership dues are $50.00 which is quite reasonable considering the potential value of our organization.  Application for membership in the MIchael Late Benedum Chapter is now an Online Process and can be accessed at the link below.  You will be prompted to enter your contact information, select your sponsoring member, and to make payment via PayPal (You can pay as a guest without being a PayPal member).  An e-mail will be sent to your sponsoring member asking them to verify by clicking a link.  Once sponsorship is verified the application will go into a "pending" status, your name will be read at the next regular meeting and your name will be published in our monthly newsletter.  Once the 30-day waiting period concludes, barring any objections, your membership will become active and you will receive a welcome e-mail from the website with logon instructions.  Join Now!

For those who wish to reinstate a membership that has lapsed, please click on the link and complete the Membership Reinstatement Form.

Membership in this Chapter shall be in the following Classifications:

A. Active
B. Associate
C. Honorary

A. Active

Active membership in the Chapter shall be available to professional landmen regularly engaged in land work relating to the mineral industry that are Active members in good standing of the National Organization.

B. Associate

Associate membership shall be available to professional landmen regularly engaged in land work relating to the mineral industry who are not Active members in good standing of the National Organization and to persons regularly engaged in employment in the mineral industry closely related to professional landmen and interested in furthering the aims of the Chapter.

C. Honorary

Honorary membership status may be conferred by the Executive Committee to the following:

1. Persons of the Chapter who are at least sixty (60) years old and have been an Active member of the Chapter in good standing for five (5) consecutive years preceding such application, and have rendered outstanding service to the Chapter.

An Active member may make application for Honorary membership by sending a letter to the President of the Chapter. The letter should set forth the reasons for making such application, including a confirmation by the applicant that he/she is 60 years of age and that the applicant has been a member in good standing for the past five years. The President shall cause a vote to be taken at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Executive Committee to determine whether or not the Honorary membership shall be granted to the applicant. The applicant will be notified of the Executive Committee's decision by letter from the President within thirty (30) days of such meeting.

2. Persons who, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, have rendered outstanding service or contribution to the mineral industry or the Chapter deserving of this membership.
Active or Associate status of Honorary members shall be dependent upon their status with the National Organization in any given fiscal year.

All members shall be entitled to vote, and enjoy all other privileges and responsibilities of membership relating solely to the Chapter. Only Active members may hold office or serve as Committee Chairpersons and vote on matters that relate to the relationship between the Chapter and the National Organization.
Notice of the application(s) of all potential Chapter member(s) shall be published in the next regularly scheduled monthly Chapter “Takeoff” newsletter. Active members shall have the opportunity during for a period of thirty (30) days following the first publication to object to the potential members’ application. Such objections to membership approval may be submitted to any member of the Executive Committee and shall be in writing. The Executive Committee shall take any such objection under counsel in the next regularly scheduled monthly Executive Committee meeting. A decision to accept or reject the membership application shall be determined by a majority vote at such meeting. The Executive Committee shall notify the applicant in writing of rejection.

Application for membership in the Chapter shall be subject to the approval by a majority vote of the Executive Committee at a regularly scheduled meeting, after the aforementioned thirty (30) day newsletter publication period, and shall require the signed approval by the acting President of the Executive Committee, as evidence of the Committee’s approval. Names of any and all newly approved members shall be read at the following regularly scheduled general meeting of the Chapter.

Revocation of membership must be approved by a majority vote of the officers present at any regularly scheduled Executive Committee meeting. Revocation shall be used only in extreme circumstances, i.e., in which a member’s conduct exhibits an attitude or business practice contrary to the best interests of the Chapter as a whole. Such revocation of membership shall be announced at the next regularly scheduled general meeting of the Chapter.