The regular membership of the Association of State Baptist Publications shall be composed of the news publication of the State Conventions cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Associate membership shall be available to press services working in close cooperation with the regular members of the association, and to the primary official publication of a state convention that does not have a newspaper.
Both regular and associate membership in this association shall be granted upon the vote of two-thirds majority of the members attending an annual business meeting. They shall remain members until two-thirds of members attending an annual business meeting vote to terminate that status.