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Directors, as such, may receive such compensation and be reimbursed for expenses of attendance at any meeting of the board as shall be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefore.

Since I don’t have much money to hire lawyer, I am searching for sample of bylaw for the nonprofit in california.

The first part basically means that directors of the non-profit can be reimbursed for expenses for attendance at the non-profit’s board meetings, such as mileage and parking, if the board makes a resolution to do so. The second part means that they may also be an employee of the non-profit and be paid for that position.

They cannot be paid a salary as a board member, however.

Being on the board of directors and also being an employee of the organization could create a conflict of interest, however.

Here are a couple of examples of non-profit by laws from California organizations:

http://www.bikehikers.com/PDFs/Bylaws.pdf

http://www.africanconservancy.org/about/documents/AC_Bylaws.pdf

You will want to check California law regarding setting up a non-profit - you can find that here:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=corp&codebody=&hits=All

Decide which type of non-profit you want to incorporate and check that section:

Section 5110 (domestic nonprofit public benefit corporations)
Section 7110 (domestic nonprofit mutual benefit corporations)
Section 9110 (domestic nonprofit religious corporations)