Since you are clearly an authority in this area I suggest you immediately contact the San Bernardino County Parks Department, The City of San Diego, The City of Phoenix and on and on.

Please share your depth of knowledge and obvious expertise in this area with them. These poor agencies and public entities are unaware of the true situation as elucidated in your incisive evaluation of this area of law. They have all foolishly, and apparently incorrectly, required clubs or other groups to require AMA membership to use a site located on public lands AND in parks. Beyond that, many of them have also granted these same clubs the right to control access to these same public park lands!! The depth of their ignorance clearly has no bounds. It is a sad testament to the caliber of people that these cities must be hiring that their own people are so incapable of knowing and enforcing the law.

So rather than waste more band width preaching to a bunch of modelers, why not do something, and get out there and set all these fools straight. Their attorneys clearly are not up to speed on this. John Q. Public will thank you for your service!!!