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8.2 Eligibility for Optional Student Fee Collection and Disbursement

An organization, in order to be eligible to invoke the optional student fee collection and disbursement process by the University as defined herein, must:

  1. be a student organization formally recognized as such by the University; and
  2. be educational in nature or have an educational purpose; and
  3. be politically nonpartisan, nonprofit, and controlled by the student membership or student representatives thereof through a set of known and fair internal governance procedures; and
  4. if it is an affiliate or sub-unit of some other organization not a recognized student organization formally recognized as such by the University, be fairly represented in the policy-making organ of that other organization of which it is an affiliate or sub-unit, and, provided that said other organization must itself be in conformance with the requirements of subsections b and c of this section.