Mind you, this will never be an issue unless there's a serious mishap of sorts, or perhaps if an injury attorney starts digging, but here's something to consider. While AMA is not accountable for the actions of individual members, they are accountable for what they know or should know is happening at events they sanction. If at a sanctioned event, it's AMA policy NOT to check for compliance with a law DIRECTLY related to the operations at the event, that's a data point about the AMA's safety culture. How much will it matter? By itself, not much. But remember this discussion could be happening in front of a jury, one looking at some badly injured person. Then say the lawyer does some digging on you tube and finds any number of violations of AMA's safety code. That combined with the earlier point could start making the case for a weak safety culture. From there, all you do is bring a professional aviation safety expert in to talk about what happens when an organizations' safety culture is weak ... which is a mishap. Could be very compelling in front of a jury.