Pool - Regular Membership

Regular Membership may be granted to intergovernmental risk pools (IRP's) that provide alternative risk financing/transfer mechanisms to public entities for specific risks that are underwritten with contributions (premiums), and that share losses and expenses in agreed ratios; or those associations which sponsor such IRP's. "IRP's include but are not limited to pools, joint powers authorities, associations, agencies and trusts; and to those captives, risk retention groups, or joint purchasing groups/cooperatives that have received a ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that their income is excludible from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code".

In individual states where there is a statutory or regulatory requirement that public entities form a mutual or reciprocal insurance company in order to come together for risk financing/transfer purposes, then those entities so organized may be Regular Members. Where there is no statutory or regulatory requirement, entities that elect to be organized as a mutual or reciprocal insurance company may not be Regular Members. Such groups may be eligible for Affiliate Membership (see below).

Each Regular Member shall appoint a Designated Representative who shall vote on behalf of the Regular Member. Each Regular Member is entitled to a single vote on all matters set forth in the Association Bylaws through its "Designated Representative". The Designated Representative shall represent the sole interests of the Regular Member.

Individual staff/board members of the IRP may become Individual Pool Associate Members. However, only the Designated Representative shall have the right to cast votes on behalf of the Regular Member.

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Pool - Affiliate Membership

Affiliate Membership may be granted to those organizations not otherwise eligible for Regular Membership that nevertheless enhance and advance the purposes and objectives of intergovernmental pooling as determined by the Association Board of Directors. Affiliate Members may include, but are not necessarily limited to voluntarily organized mutual or reciprocal insurance companies, or captives, risk retention groups or joint purchasing groups/cooperatives that have not received a tax exemption Ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, OR members of organizations choosing to join through an Allied member (such as CAJPA member pools). Companies that provide services to pools including, but not limited to, third party administrators, brokers, consultants and insurers do not qualify for Affiliate Membership. Affiliate Members shall not have voting rights but shall have all other rights granted to members.
Individual staff/board members of Pool-Regular and Pool-Affiliate members may become Individual Pool Associate Members.

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Individual Pool Associate Membership

May be granted to individual staff/board members of Regular member and Affiliate member pools or Allied members.  Associate members shall not have voting rights.

Honorary Lifetime Associate Membership

Recipients are entitled to all benefits provided to Associate Members.  Criteria for granting of such membership is as follows:

1. Having served no less than ten (10) years as an official or contract provider of an Intergovernmental Risk Pool eligible for Regular or Affiliate Membership in AGRiP;
2. Having provided distinguished service to the pooling community and/or to AGRiP that goes beyond the normal contributions of similarly situated individuals, which service shall be documented in a letter of nomination;
3. No longer being in active, full-time service with a public entity pool or company or organization eligible for AGRiP membership; and
4. Whose nomination for Lifetime Associate Membership is approved by a simple majority of the current number of Board members.

Partner Membership

Individual employees of companies or organizations that provide products or services to pools or who wish to support the Association.

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