ORIGINAL: J_R
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The arms distance relationship would have been breeched.
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You might want to make that "has been breeched".
Don't forget that AMA already tried to mandate that clubs adopt AMA's club by-laws, and when that blew up Muncie decided to back off to the point that now clubs must simply have by-laws, if they want a charter. The fat lady hasn't even cleared her throat on this issue, and I for one think that in the not too distant future AMA will mandate that clubs adopt specified by-laws or lose their charter.
AMA made itself a potential co-defendant when it started chartering clubs, and it's way too late to step back from that plate.
More recently the edict that clubs have a safety officer who is to have direct contact with AMA, and now their 'arms' are very much shorter than ever.