Article VII

Adoption and Amendment

 

Section 1:         These By-Laws shall remain in effect unless later revised, amended, or repealed by majority vote of all members who vote on the revision, amendment or repeal.

 

Section 2:         These By-Laws may be revised, amended, or repealed through the following procedure:

 

1. The amendment item(s) to be placed on the Board of Directors’ agenda for the upcoming board meeting.

2. Board of Directors shall discuss the proposed amendments during a board meeting and agree to place the item for board’s approval by vote on the next board meeting.

3. At the following board meeting, the Board of directors vote to bring the item into general membership’s vote for the next annual election meeting at the end of the year.  Except that in the case that an amendment is determined to be necessary by unanimous vote of the directors, such amendment shall be put to the general membership for vote at any date determined by the Board.

4. Prior to annual election meeting, the amendment item(s) shall be advertised to the membership via all methods of a) web site posting, b) e-mail announcement, and c) direct mail.

5. General membership to vote on the amendment item(s) at the annual election meeting. The amendment item(s) shall pass by receiving the majority votes of the sum of all votes cast by the members present and absentee ballots.

 

Section 3:         Any member shall be able to submit a request for amendment by presenting written text of the proposed amendment to all members and collecting signatures, names, and addresses of minimum two-thirds(2/3) of the entire membership. The written text and list of members’ signatures shall be presented to the board in order to be placed for membership vote at the next annual election meeting. (Section 2, paragraph 3).

                        

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