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Article IV
Suspension and Termination of Membership
- Section 1. For Non-Payment of Dues or Assessments
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- Any member who shall be in default in payment of annual dues, assessments, or other sums due the Association for a period of six (6) months after the same shall have become due and payable shall be suspended automatically from membership. During the period of his or her suspension a suspended member shall not be permitted to hold any office in this Association, to attend any meetings, or to exercise any of the privileges of membership. Any office such member holds shall become vacant upon such six months' default. Payment by a suspended member of his or her dues prior to the expiration of twelve (12) months after such dues shall have become due and payable shall automatically restore the suspended member to fall membership and to all of the rights, privileges and prerogatives thereof, including any vacated office provided that it has not been filled prior to such restoration.
- Any member who shall be in default in payment of any sums due the Association for a period of twelve (12) months after the same shall become due and payable shall be dropped from the membership roll. A member whose membership has been so canceled shall not be entitled to restoration to membership by the mere payment of delinquent and current dues. He or she may become a member again only after application pursuant to Aiticle III of these By-Laws and the payment of the annual dues required by all new members.
- Section 2. For Other Causes
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- Whenever in the judgment of the Executive Committee a member shall cease to possess the eligibility qualifications set forth in Aiticle III hereof, the Executive Committee, by a vote of a majority of such Committee, may terminate and cancel his or her membership; whereupon said member shall be notified of such termination and cancellation in writing, and may within ten (10) days after receipt of such notice request a hearing before the Executive Committee under the circumstances and in the manner provided in Section (b) of this Section 2.
- The Executive Committee may, after a hearing, suspend or expel any member for grossly unprofessional or immoral conduct or for any action or conduct grossly inconsistent with, or inimical or injurious to, the purposes of this Association; provided, however, that a copy of the charges made against him or her, together with written natice of the time and place of hearing thereupon by the Executive Committee, shall have been served upon the accused member at least fifteen (15) days prior to said hearing; and, provided, further, that the accused member shall have full opportunity to be heard in his or her own defense before said Committee. A majority vote of the Executive Committee shall be required for suspension, and a two-thirds vote shall be required for expulsion. A member suspended shall be automatically reinstated at the expiration of the period of his or her suspension. A member so expelled may apply by petition for re-admission after the lapse of one (1) year following his or her expulsion and, upon a majority vote of the Executive Committee and the payment of the required dues, by, be the Executive Committee, re-admitted to membership.
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