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Article IX
Executive Committee
- Section 1.
- There shall be an Executive Committee which shall consist of the officers, immediate past president, Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairman, State Delegate to the Defense Research Institute, and chairmen of all standing committees. Vacancies on the Executive Committee for those members who are not officers shall be filled by appointment by the President to serve the unexpired term. Each Member other than the officers shall assume his or her office immediately upon appointment and the past president shall assume his duties immediately upon leaving the office of president. His term on the Executive Committee shall be for one year or until the next President leaves the office of President and succeeds him on the Executive Committee. The newly elected officers shall assume the duties of their offices immediately upon the adjournment of the Annual Meeting of the Association at which he or she is elected.
- Section 2.
- The Executive Committee shall have general supervision, management and control of the business, affairs, and activities of this Association, subject, however, to the provisions of other Sections of these Bylaws. The Committee shall determine its own rules of procedure. Five (5) members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of the Committee, except that if written notice has been given as provided in these Bylaws a quorum shall consist of those members present.
Regular meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held at such times as the Executive Committee by resolution shall determine.
Special meetings of the Executive Committee may be held from time to time whenever called by the President or any three (3) Members. Notice of the calling of a special meeting of the Executive Committee shall be given by written notice mailed by the person or persons calling the meeting to each member of the Executive Committee at least five (5) days in advance of the holding of such meeting.
The authority of the Executive Committee shall extend to and include the following powers and authority:
- To fix the annual dues of members.
- To appoint officers to fill any vacancies which may occur in any elective office and any officer so appointed to fill any such vacancy shall serve until the end of the unexpired term of such office.
- To hire an Executive Secretary or such other employee or employees as the Executive Committee deems necessary to conduct the work of the Association, none of whom needs to be a member of this Association, and to fix the duties and compensation of any such persons.
- To advise the Legislative Committee on the position of the Association on proposed legislation and initiated acts and further to designate specific legislative proposals to be advanced by the Legislative Committee.
- In the interval between Annual Meetings of this Association to do all acts and perform all functions which this Association itself might do or perform.
- Section 3.
- The President shall be Chairman of the Executive Committee. In his or her absence, the President-Elect, and in the absence of both, the immediate Past President, and in the absence of all three, the Secretary or a member of the Committee selected by the Committee, shall act as such Chairman.
- Section 4.
- Each Executive Committee member shall serve without compensation but, by action of the Executive Committee, may be reimbursed for his or her actual and necessary expenses incurred while engaged in the business of this Association.
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