Article
I Name
The name of this organization shall be Rotary Club
of _________________________
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(Member
of Rotary International)
Article
II Territorial Limits
The territorial limits of this club are as follows:
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Article
III Object
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the
ideal of service as a basis of wor-thy
enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and
foster:
First.
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
Second.
High ethical standards in business and professions; the
recognition of
the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the
dignifying of each Rotarian’s occu-pation
as an opportunity to serve society;
Third.
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s
personal, business
and community life;
Fourth.
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and
peace
through a world fellowship of business and
professional persons united in the ideal
of service.
Article
IV Meetings
Section
1 —
.1 This club shall hold a regular meeting once each
week on the day and
at the time provided in its bylaws.
.2 In an emergency or for good cause, the board of
directors of this club
may change a regular meeting to any day during the
period com-mencing
with the day following the preceding regular
meeting and
ending with the day preceding the next regular
meeting, or to a dif-ferent
hour of the regular day, or to a different place.
.3 If a regular meeting falls on a legal holiday or
in case of the death of the
club president, or of an epidemic or of a disaster
affecting the whole
community, the board may cancel such regular
meeting. The board of
directors of this club, at its discretion, may
cancel not more than two
regular meetings in any one Rotary year for causes
not otherwise spec-ified
herein provided always that the club should not
fail to meet for
more than two consecutive meetings.
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*Constitution
of the Rotary Club of
* The bylaws of Rotary International provide that
each club admitted to membership in RI
shall adopt this prescribed standard club
constitution.
Section
2 — An annual meeting for the election of officers of
this club shall be held
not later than the thirty-first day of December in
each year as provided in the
bylaws of this club.
Article
V Membership
Section
1 — General
Qualifications. This club shall be composed of adult persons
of
good character and good business or professional
reputation.
Section
2 — Kinds. This
Rotary club shall have four kinds of membership, namely:
active, senior active, past service and honorary.
Section
3 — Active Membership.
A person possessing the qualifications set forth in
article V, section 3 of the RI constitution may be
elected to active membership in
this club. Aperson possessing the qualifications
for active membership, but who
is in the same classification of business or
profession as an active member of this
club, may be elected as an additional member under
the provisions of this section.
Such additional persons are active members with all
the privileges of active mem-bership.
However, such additional persons shall not be
holders of their clas-sifications
and may not propose other additional active members
under their
own classifications.
Section
4 — Categories of
Additional Active Members. This club may elect three cate-gories
of additional active members. This club may have
one additional active
with the same classification in each of the three
categories.
(a) First
Category — Same Classification as Proposer. An active member
may propose
to active membership a person who is actively
engaged in the same classifi-cation
as that of the proposer.
(b) Second
Category — Former Rotarian. An active member may propose to active
membership a former member of a club, with the
consent of the active mem-ber
holding the classification, if the proposed member
terminated such mem-bership
in the former club due to no longer being engaged
in the formerly
assigned classification of business or profession
within the territorial limits of
the former club.
(c) Third
Category — Former Rotaractor. An active member may
propose to active
membership a former member of a Rotaract club, with
the consent of the
active member who holds the classification. The
former Rotaractor must
live or work within the territorial limits of this
club, have maintained mem-bership
in one or more Rotaract clubs for at least four
years, and have termi-nated
membership in the former Rotaract club due to
reaching the age limit
for membership or relocating outside the
territorial limits of the former
Rotaract club.
(d) Change
in Classification Holder. All additional active members must have the
same classification as one of the active members of
this club, who is the hold-er
of the classification. If the active member holding
the classification ceases
to hold the classification for any reason,
including a transition to senior active
or past service membership, then one of the
additional members with the
same classification will become the holder of the
classification. If there is only
one additional active member with such
classification, the additional active
automatically becomes the classification holder. If
there are two or three addi-tional
active members with such classification, then this
club elects one of
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them to be the classification holder, and the other
member(s) remain as addi-tional
actives.
Section
5 — Senior Active Membership.
(a) General
Qualifications. Any active or past service member shall
automatically
become a senior active member where such member’s
combined active and
past service membership in one or more clubs
includes: a total of at least 15
years membership; a total of at least ten years
where the member has attained
the age of at least 60 years; a total of at least
five years where the member has
attained the age of at least 65 years; or, where
the member is a present or
past officer of RI.
(b) Former
Members. This club may elect to senior active membership any
former
member of any club who was a senior active member
or eligible to become a
senior active member at the time such membership
was terminated.
(c) Rights
and Privileges — Limitations
of Senior Active Membership. Senior active
members shall have all the rights, privileges and
responsibilities of an active
member, except that they neither hold
classifications nor have the right to
propose additional active members.
(d) Successor
to Senior Active. This club may admit to membership a
qualified
person in the classification of business or
profession in which such senior
active member may be engaged.
Section
6 —Past Service
Membership. Apast service member is one who has all the
rights, privileges and responsibilities of an
active member except that such mem-ber
shall not represent a classification or have the
right to propose an additional
active member under sections 3 and 4 above.
(a) Eligibility
for Past Service Membership. The following individuals
are eligible for
past service membership:
(i) Past Service Membership — Retirement. Aperson
who has retired
from active business or professional life but who
is otherwise
qualified for Rotary club membership under article
V, section 3, of
the RI constitution, including having held a
qualifying position
level, may be elected a past service member.
(ii) Past Service Membership — Loss of
Classification. Active mem-bers
who have lost their classifications through no
fault of their
own may be elected to past service membership by
this club’s
board of directors.
(b) Admission
Fee Exemption. Current or former members elected to past service
membership in their clubs are exempt from paying a
second admission fee.
Section
7 — Dual Membership. No
person shall simultaneously hold active, senior
active or past service membership in this and
another club. No person shall simul-taneously
be a member and an honorary member in this club.
Section
8 — Honorary Membership.
(a) Eligibility
for Honorary Membership. Persons who have distinguished them-selves
by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary
ideals may be elect-ed
to honorary membership in this club. Persons may
hold honorary
membership in more than one club.
(b) Rights
and Privileges. Honorary members shall be exempt from the
payment
of admission fees and dues, shall have no vote and
shall not be eligible to hold
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any office in this club. Such members shall not
hold classifications, but shall
be entitled to attend all meetings and enjoy all the
other privileges of this
club. No honorary member of this club is entitled
to any rights and privi-leges
in any other club.
Section
9 — Religion, News
Media and Diplomatic Service. Representatives of more
than one religious denomination, representatives of
more than one newspaper
and/or other news media, and diplomatic
representatives of more than one gov-ernment
may be eligible to active membership under such
classifications, pro-vided
that such representatives otherwise possess the
qualifications as set forth
in the constitutional documents.
Section
10 — Holders of Public
Office. Persons elected or appointed to public office
for a specified time shall not be eligible to
active membership in this club under
the classification of such office. This restriction
shall not apply to persons hold-ing
positions or offices in schools, colleges or other
institutions of learning or to
persons who are elected or appointed to the
judiciary. Active members who are
elected or appointed to public office for a
specified period may continue as such
active members in their existing classifications
during the period in which they
hold such office.
Section
11 — Rotary
International Employment. This club may retain in its member-ship
any member employed by RI.
Article
VI Classifications
Section
1 — Classifications.
(a) Each active member of this club shall be
classified in accordance with the
member’s business or profession.
(b) The classification of each active member of
this club shall be that which cov-ers
the principal and recognized activity of the firm,
company or institution
with which such member is connected or that which
covers such member’s
principal and recognized business or professional
activity.
(c) How
Corrected. The board, in its discretion, may correct or adjust
the classifi-cation
of any member whose membership has not terminated,
if the circum-stances
warrant such action. Due notice of such proposed
correction or
adjustment shall be given to the member and the
member shall be allowed a
hearing thereon.
Section
2 — Limitations. The
active membership shall consist of but one person
from each classification of business or profession,
excepting the religion, news
media, and diplomatic services classifications,
which may have more than one
person in each such classification, and excepting
the provision for additional
active members.
Article
VII Attendance
Section
1 — Every member of this club should attend its regular
meetings. Amem-ber
shall be counted as attending a regular meeting of
this club if such member
is present for at least 60 percent of the time
devoted for the regular meeting or
makes up for an absence in any of the following
ways:
(a) If at any time within 14 days before or after
the usual time for that meeting
such member
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(i) attends at least 60 percent of the time devoted
for the regular
meeting of another club or of a provisional club,
or
(ii) by direction of this club, attends a regular
meeting of a Rotaract or
Interact club or Rotary Village Corps or of a
provisional Rotaract
or Interact club or Rotary Village Corps, or
(iii) attends a convention of RI, a council on
legislation, an interna-tional
assembly, a Rotary institute for past and present
officers of
RI, a Rotary institute for past, present, and
incoming officers of RI,
or any other meeting convened with the approval of
the board, the
president acting for the board of RI, a Rotary
multizone confer-ence,
a RI committee meeting, a Rotary district
conference, a
Rotary district assembly, any district meeting held
by direction
of the board of directors of RI, any district
committee meeting
held by direction of the district governor, or a
regularly announced
intercity meeting of Rotary clubs, or
(iv) is present at the usual time and place of a
regular meeting of
another club for the purpose of attending such
meeting, and that
club is not meeting at the time and place, or
(v) except that where a member is traveling outside
the member’s
country of residence for a period exceeding
fourteen days, the
time restriction shall not be imposed by this
subsection inasmuch
as a member may attend meetings in another country
at any time
during the period of travel, and each such
attendance shall count
as a valid make-up for any regular meeting missed
at this club
during the member’s time abroad, or
(vi) attends a club service project authorized by
the board of this club.
(b) If, at the time of such meeting, a member is
(i) traveling with reasonable directness to or from
one of the meetings
mentioned in paragraph (a) (iii) of this section,
or
(ii) on Rotary business serving as an officer or
member of a commit-tee
of RI, or a trustee of The Rotary Foundation, or
(iii) on Rotary business serving as the special
representative of the
district governor in the formation of a new club,
or
(iv) on Rotary business in the employ of RI, or
(v) directly and actively engaged in a
district-sponsored or a RI or
Rotary Foundation-sponsored service project in a
remote area
where the opportunity for making up attendance is
completely
impossible, or
(vi) engaged in Rotary business duly authorized by
the board of this
club if this precludes attendance at a meeting of
this club, or
(vii) working in bona fide circumstances within the
member’s own
country of residence for extended periods on
outposted assign-ments
when, by mutual agreement between the member’s home
club and a nominated club, the member may attend
such nominat-ed
club for the period of assignment, validated by an
appropriate
form of advice by the secretary of said club to the
member’s home
club where such attendance shall be credited in the
member’s name.
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of Make-up. In the cases set out in subsection (a) (ii), (a)
(iii) or sub-section
(b) of section 1 of this article, the member shall
only be counted as being
in attendance if notice of the fact is given by the
member personally to the club.
In the cases set out in subparagraphs (a) (i) and
(iv), such notice may be given by
the member personally or by the secretary of the
club visited.
Section
3 — Exemptions. A
member’s absence shall be excused if
(a) (i) the absence is caused by protracted ill
health or impairment or by
stay of more than two weeks in a country in which
Rotary clubs
do not exist so that such member is physically
unable to attend a
regular meeting and the board approves such
absence.
(ii) In the case of intended absence in a country
in which there are no
Rotary clubs, the member shall inform the secretary
of this club
before starting the journey or, if that is
impossible, in writing from
that country. Before approving such absence, the
board shall sat-isfy
itself that the journey will prevent the member
from making
up an absence in accordance with section 1 (a) of
this article, or
(b) a member is a senior active member and the
aggregate of the member’s years
of age and years of membership in one or more clubs
is 85 years or more and
the member has notified the club secretary in
writing of the member’s desire
to be excused from attendance and the board has
approved.
The absences of members who fall into categories
(a) (i) and (ii) above and whose
absences have been excused shall not be included in
the club’s attendance records
for the period in question. Members who fall into
category (b) above shall not be
included in the membership figure used to compute
the club’s attendance; further,
neither their absences nor attendances shall be
used for that purpose.
Article
VIII Directors and Officers
Section
1 — The governing body of this club shall be a board of
directors to be
constituted as the bylaws of the club may provide.
Section
2 — Except as herein otherwise specifically provided,
the decision of the
board in all club matters shall be final, subject
only to an appeal to the club. The
board shall have general control over all officers
and committees and may, for
good cause, declare any office vacant. It shall
constitute a board of appeal from the
rulings of all officers and actions of all
committees. Appeal may be taken from any
decision of the board to the club. On such appeal,
the decision appealed from shall
be reversed only by a two-thirds vote of the
members present, at a regular meet-ing
specified by the board, a quorum being present,
notice of such appeal having
been given by the secretary to all members of the
club at least five (5) days pre-vious
to such meeting.
Section
3 — The officers of this club shall be a president, a
president-elect, one or
more vice-presidents, all of whom shall be members
of the board, and a secretary,
a treasurer, and a sergeant-at-arms, any or all of
whom may or may not be mem-bers
of the board as the bylaws of the club shall
provide.
Section
4 —
.1 Each officer shall be elected as provided in the
bylaws of the club and,
except as may otherwise be provided in relation to
the president, shall
take office on the first day of July immediately
following election to
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and shall serve for the term of office or until a successor shall
have been elected and qualified.
.2 The president shall be elected, as the bylaws of
the club may provide,
within the period of not more than two years but
not less than eighteen
months prior to the day of taking office as
president. The president
shall be a director of the board and shall serve as
president-elect for the
year immediately preceding the year in which the
term as president
shall commence. The president shall take office on
the first day of July
in the Rotary year for which the president is
elected to serve and shall
serve for the period of election or until a
successor shall have been
elected and qualified.
.3 Each officer and each director shall be an
active (including additional
active), senior active, or a past service member in
good standing of
this club. For a better understanding of the duties
and responsibilities
of club president, the president-elect shall attend
the district presi-dents-
elect training seminar and the district assembly
unless excused
by the governor-elect. If so excused, the
president-elect shall send a
designated representative from the club whose duty
it will be to report
back to the president-elect.
Article
IX Admission Fees and Dues
Every active, senior active, and past service
member of this club shall pay as an
admission fee and as annual dues such sums as may
be prescribed in the bylaws of
this club, except that a senior active or past
service member who has held active
membership in this club shall not be required to
pay a second admission fee.
Article
X Duration of Membership
Section
1 — Period. Membership
shall continue during the existence of the club
unless terminated as hereinafter provided.
Section
2 — How Terminated.
(a) Membership shall automatically terminate when a
member ceases to have the
necessary qualifications for membership, except
that
(i) active members who, through no fault of their
own, would oth-erwise
lose their classifications may, by action of the
board of
directors of this club, be elected to past service
membership; or
(ii) by permission of the board, active members
moving from the ter-ritorial
limits of the club may be given special leave of
absence for
a period not exceeding one year to enable them to
visit and
become known to a Rotary club in the community to
which they
move, providing they are still active in the same
classifications of
business or profession and continue to comply with
the atten-dance
and all other conditions of Rotary membership; or
(iii) by permission of the board, active members
moving from the ter-ritorial
limits of the club may retain membership providing
they(iv) active members who would be losing their classifications without
default on their part may retain their
classifications and be given
special leaves of absence for periods not exceeding
one year to
enable them to obtain new employment in their
classifications or
in new classifications providing they continue to
comply with the
attendance and all other conditions of Rotary
membership. The
termination of their membership would take effect
only at the
end of the period of leave granted to them.
(b) When past service members reenter active
business or professional life, their
memberships automatically become active memberships
if the classifications
are vacant. If the classifications are not vacant,
they continue as past service
members.
(c) Honorary membership shall automatically
terminate on the thirtieth day of
June next after the date of election. However, the
board in its discretion may,
by resolution, from year to year continue such
honorary membership for the
ensuing year.
Section
3 — How to Rejoin. When
the membership of an active member has termi-nated
as provided in the foregoing section 2, such person
may make new appli-cation
for membership, under the same classification or
another classification. If
elected to membership, a second admission fee shall
not be required.
Section
4 — Termination —
Non-Payment of Dues.
.1 Any member failing to pay dues within thirty
(30) days after the pre-scribed
time shall be notified in writing by the secretary
at the mem-ber’s
last known address. If the dues are not paid on or
before ten (10)
days from the date of notification, said membership
shall automatically
terminate.
.2 Such former member, at the discretion of the
board, may be reinstated
to membership upon the former member’s petition,
and upon the pay-ment
of all indebtedness to the club, provided that no
former member
can be reinstated to active membership if the
classification of the for-mer
member has been filled.
Section
5 — Termination —
Non-Attendance.
(a) Each member, other than an honorary member of
this club, must
(1) attend or make up at least 60 percent of club
regular meetings in each half
of the Rotary year;
(2) attend at least 30 percent of the regular
meetings of this club in each half
of the Rotary year.
If such a member fails to attend as required above,
that person’s membership
shall automatically terminate unless the board
consents to such non-atten-dance
for good and sufficient reason. If such member is a
current officer of RI,
that member shall be excused from attending the
regular meetings of such
member’s club until the member’s current term of
office expires.
(b) The membership of any member, other than an
honorary member, of this
club shall automatically terminate if, without the
consent of the board for
good and sufficient reason, the member fails to
attend or make up four con-secutive
club meetings.
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are still active in the same classifications of
business or profes-sion
and continue to comply with attendance and all
other con-ditions
of Rotary membership; or
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Section
6 — Termination for
Other Causes.
(a) The membership of any member who shall cease to
have the qualifications for
membership in this club may be terminated by the
board by the votes of not less
than two-thirds of the members thereof, at a
meeting called for that purpose.
(b) The membership of any member may be terminated
by the board, for a rea-son
which the board may deem to be sufficient, by the
votes of not less than
two-thirds of the members thereof, at a meeting
called for that purpose.
(c) In either case (a) or (b), the member shall be
given at least ten (10) days’
notice in writing of such pending action and an
opportunity to submit to the
board a written answer. The member shall also have
the privilege of appear-ing
before the board to state the member’s case.
Service of such notice shall
be made by personal delivery or by registered
letter to the member’s last
known address.
(d) In case of a decision to terminate membership,
the secretary shall, within
seven days after the date of the board’s decision,
notify the member in writ-ing
of the decision of the board. Such member may,
within fourteen days
after the date of such notice, give written notice
to the secretary of the inten-tion
either to appeal to the club or to arbitrate as
provided in article XIV of this
constitution. In the event of an appeal, the board
shall set a date for the hear-ing
of the appeal at a regular meeting of the club, to
be held within twenty-one
(21) days after the receipt of such written notice
of appeal. At least five (5)
days’ notice of such club meeting and its special
business shall be given in
writing to every member of the club, and only
members of the club shall be
permitted to be present when such appeal is
considered at such meeting.
(e) When the board has terminated the membership of
an active member as pro-vided
for in this section, the club shall not elect a new
member under the
former classification until the time for hearing
the appeal, if any, has expired
and the club’s decision or the decision of the
arbitrators has been announced.
(f) The action of the board shall be final if no
appeal to the club is taken and
no arbitration is requested. If an appeal is taken,
the action of the club shall
be final.
Section
7 — Resignation. The
resignation of any member from the club shall be in
writing (addressed to the president or secretary)
and shall be accepted by the
board, provided that all indebtedness of said
member to the club has been paid.
Section
8 — Property Interest —
Forfeiture of. Any person whose membership in this
club has been terminated in any manner shall
forfeit all interest in any funds or
other property belonging to the club.
Article
XI Community, National and International Affairs
Section
1 — The general welfare of the community, the nation
and the world is a
concern to the members of this club, and the merits
of any public question involv-ing
such welfare shall be proper subjects of fair and
intelligent study and dis-cussion
before a club meeting for the enlightenment of its
members in forming
their individual opinions. However, this club shall
not express an opinion on
any pending controversial public measure.
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Section
2 — This club shall not endorse or recommend any
candidate for public
office and shall not discuss at any club meeting
the merits or demerits of any
such candidate.
Section
3 —
(a) This club shall neither adopt nor circulate
resolutions or views, nor take cor-porate
action dealing with world affairs or international
policies of a political
nature.
(b) This club shall not direct appeals to clubs,
peoples or governments, or circu-late
letters, speeches, or proposed plans for the
solution of specific interna-tional
problems of a political nature.
Section
4 — Recognizing Rotary’s
Beginning.
.1 This club will strive to emphasize aspects of
Rotary service during a
special week of celebrations commencing on the
anniversary of
Rotary’s establishment. The week commencing on 23
February of each
year shall be known as World Understanding and
Peace Week.
.2 While the special week will provide opportunity
to reflect upon past
achievements, it is appropriate to focus upon
programs of peace,
understanding and goodwill within the community and
throughout
the world.
Article
XII Rotary Magazines
Section
1 — Unless this club is excused by the board of
directors of RI from com-plying
with the provisions of this article in accordance
with the bylaws of RI,
every active, senior active or past service member
of this club, by acceptance of
such membership, shall become, and so remain for
the duration of such mem-bership,
a paid subscriber to the official magazine or to
the approved magazine
prescribed for this club by the board of directors
of RI. The subscription shall be
handled in six (6) month periods and shall continue
for the duration of mem-bership
in this club and to the end of any six (6) month
period during which
membership may cease.
Section
2 — The amount of the subscription shall be collected
by the club from
each member semiannually in advance and remitted to
the Secretariat of RI or to
the office of such regional publications as may be
determined by the board of
directors of RI.
Article
XIII Acceptance of Object and Compliance with Constitution and Bylaws
Amember, by payment of an admission fee and dues,
thereby accepts the principles
of Rotary as expressed in its object and submits to
and agrees to comply with and
be bound by the constitution and bylaws of this
club, and on these conditions alonemember from the club, or on any account
whatsoever which cannot be satisfactorily
settled under the procedure already provided for
such purpose, the matters in dif-ference
shall be settled by arbitration. Each party shall
appoint an arbitrator and the
arbitrators shall appoint an umpire. Only members
of a Rotary club may be appoint-ed
as umpire or as arbitrators. The decision arrived
at by the arbitrators, or, in the
event of their disagreement, by the umpire, shall
be final and binding on all parties.
Article
XV Bylaws
This club shall adopt bylaws not inconsistent with
the constitution and bylaws of RI
(and the rules of procedure for an area
administration where established) and with
this constitution, embodying additional provisions
for the government of this club.
Such bylaws may be amended from time to time as
therein provided.
Article
XVI Interpretation
Throughout this constitution, pronouns of either
the masculine or feminine gender
shall include the other.
Article
XVII Amendments
Section
1 — Time. Except
as provided in section 4 of this article, this constitution
may be amended only by the council on legislation
in the same manner as is
established in the bylaws of RI for the amendment
of its bylaws.
Section
2 — Who May Propose. Amendments
to this constitution, except as provid-ed
in section 4 of this article, may be proposed only
by a club, by a district con-ference,
by the general council or the conference of RI in
Great Britain and Ireland,
by the council on legislation, or by the board of
directors of RI.
Section
3 — Procedure.
.1 Any proposal to amend this constitution shall be
delivered to the gen-eral
secretary of RI not later than 30 June in the year
preceding that in
which the council on legislation is to meet.
.2 The general secretary of RI shall mail five
copies of all duly proposed
amendments to each governor, one copy to all
members of the coun-cil
on legislation and one copy to the secretary of any
club that requests
it, no later than 31 December in the year the
council shall be convened.
The proposed amendments also will be made available
via the Rotary
World Wide Web home page. Resumés of all proposed
enactments,
with details of the deletions and additions to the Manual of Procedure
omitted, shall be sent to each club.
.3 The council shall consider and act upon each
duly proposed amend-ment
transmitted to the council and any duly proffered
amendment
thereof.
Section
4 — Article I (Name) and Article II (Territorial
Limits) of this constitution
shall be amended at any regular meeting of this
club, a quorum being present by
the affirmative vote of a majority of members
present and voting, provided that
notice of such proposed amendment shall have been
mailed to each member at
least ten (10) days before such meeting, and
provided further, that such amend-ment
shall be submitted to the board of directors of RI
for its approval and shall
become effective only when so approved. In the
event of reconsideration of a
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is entitled to the privileges of the club. No
member shall be absolved from the
observance of the constitution and bylaws on the
plea that such member has not
received a copy of them.
Article
XIV Arbitration
Should any dispute arise between any member or
members, or a former member or
members, and the club, or any officer or the board
of the club, relative to member-ship
or to any alleged breach of the constitution or
bylaws, or the expulsion of any
262member from the club, or
on any account whatsoever which cannot be satisfactorily
settled under the procedure already provided for
such purpose, the matters in dif-ference
shall be settled by arbitration. Each party shall
appoint an arbitrator and the
arbitrators shall appoint an umpire. Only members
of a Rotary club may be appoint-ed
as umpire or as arbitrators. The decision arrived
at by the arbitrators, or, in the
event of their disagreement, by the umpire, shall
be final and binding on all parties.
Article
XV Bylaws
This club shall adopt bylaws not inconsistent with
the constitution and bylaws of RI
(and the rules of procedure for an area
administration where established) and with
this constitution, embodying additional provisions
for the government of this club.
Such bylaws may be amended from time to time as
therein provided.
Article
XVI Interpretation
Throughout this constitution, pronouns of either
the masculine or feminine gender
shall include the other.
Article
XVII Amendments
Section
1 — Time. Except
as provided in section 4 of this article, this constitution
may be amended only by the council on legislation
in the same manner as is
established in the bylaws of RI for the amendment
of its bylaws.
Section
2 — Who May Propose. Amendments
to this constitution, except as provid-ed
in section 4 of this article, may be proposed only
by a club, by a district con-ference,
by the general council or the conference of RI in
Great Britain and Ireland,
by the council on legislation, or by the board of
directors of RI.
Section
3 — Procedure.
.1 Any proposal to amend this constitution shall be
delivered to the gen-eral
secretary of RI not later than 30 June in the year
preceding that in
which the council on legislation is to meet.
.2 The general secretary of RI shall mail five
copies of all duly proposed
amendments to each governor, one copy to all
members of the coun-cil
on legislation and one copy to the secretary of any
club that requests
it, no later than 31 December in the year the
council shall be convened.
The proposed amendments also will be made available
via the Rotary
World Wide Web home page. Resumés of all proposed
enactments,
with details of the deletions and additions to the Manual of Procedure
omitted, shall be sent to each club.
.3 The council shall consider and act upon each
duly proposed amend-ment
transmitted to the council and any duly proffered
amendment
thereof.
Section
4 — Article I (Name) and Article II (Territorial Limits)
of this constitution
shall be amended at any regular meeting of this
club, a quorum being present by
the affirmative vote of a majority of members
present and voting, provided that
notice of such proposed amendment shall have been
mailed to each member at
least ten (10) days before such meeting, and
provided further, that such amend-ment
shall be submitted to the board of directors of RI
for its approval and shall
become effective only when so approved. In the
event of reconsideration of a
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decision not to relinquish or share territory for
the organization of an addition-al
club, as directed by the board of directors of RI,
as provided in subsection
2.020.4. of the bylaws of RI a two-thirds vote is
required to sustain the previous
negative decision.
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