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The name of this organization is the SUNY ALbany Student Chapter
of the American Society for Information Science and Technolgy (ASIST).
The Purpose of the Student Chapter is to provide an organization
through which student members of ASIST within the SUNY Albany community
may participate in and carry forward the programs and purposes of
ASIST. The Student Chapter shall promote the interests of the Society
and its programs, including every reasonable effort to involve students
of information science and related disciplines who are located within
its community.
Section 1.
All student members of ASIST whose academic affiliations are within
the community established by these bylaws shall automatically be
members of the Student Chapter.
Section 2.
In addition to student members, the Student Chapter must include
one regular member of ASIST who shall serve as Advisor, but who
shall not hold a vote in the Student Chapter.
Section 3.
All members of the Student Chapter are entitled to receive Student
Chapter publications. Official notice of Student Chapter meetings
and programs shall be distributed to all members prior to the event.
Section 4.
Only Student Chapter members may vote on any question submitted
to the Student Chapter at a meeting, or by formal ballot, and only
they may serve as officers.
Section 5.
A Student Chapter member whose membership in ASIST has been terminated
shall no longer be a Student Chapter member. Upon reinstatement
to ASIST membership, such a terminated member shall immediately
regain full privileges of membership in the Student Chapter. The
Executive Director of ASIST shall inform the Chapter Advisor or
other appropriate officer when any member is not in good standing
in ASIST, or when such a member has been reinstated.
Section 1.
The officers of a Student Chapter shall include a presiding officer
to be known as the Student Chapter Chair, a Vice Chair, and a Secretary-Treasurer.
Chapter Officers shall serve for the Administrative Year of Spring
2000 to Fall 2000.
Section 2.
The Student Chapter Chair shall see that an annual financial report
of the Student Chapter is filed with the Executive Director of ASIST
within thirty days of the close of the ASIST fiscal year.
Section 3.
The Student Chapter Chair shall preside over all meetings of the
Student Chapter and the Executive Committee. The Chair shall appoint
the Chairs and members of all committees, subject to the provisions
of these bylaws, and subject also to the consent of the Executive
Committee.
Section 4.
The Vice-Chair shall actively assist the Chair, shall preside at
Executive Committee or Student Chapter meetings in the absence of
the Chair, and shall automatically succeed to the Office of the
Chair upon completion of the Chair's term, or upon the death or
resignation of the Chair.
Section 5.
The Secretary-Treasurer shall carry out the customary functions
of these offices and shall execute the decisions and policies of
the Executive Committee.
Section 6.
The Officers of the Student Chapter must be student members of ASIST.
They shall be elected by a majority of members present and voting
at a Student Meeting or by formal ballot. The report and recommendations
of the Nominating Committee shall be distributed to all voting members
of the Student Chapter with a ballot or with a notice of the Student
Chapter meeting at which a vote is taken. Additional nominations
may be written in on the ballot or made from the floor.
Section 7.
In the event of the death or resignation of an elected Student Chapter
Officer other than the Chair, the Executive Committee shall appoint
a member to serve until the next election.
Section 1.
All Student Chapter dues and assessments shall be set by two-thirds
of the members present and voting at an annual meeting or voting
by formal ballot, becoming effective the next succeeding January
1. Student Chapter dues may be assessed against any ASIST member
who is a Student Chapter member, but non-payment of such dues shall
not deny such member the privileges of student chapter membership,
except that the student chapter member shall withhold the privilege
of holding office for non-payment of such dues.
Section 2.
The Student Chapter may collect monies from persons and institutions
who are not members of the Society to place them on a mailing list
for meeting notices and other mailings, but such persons and institutions
shall have no vote in Student Chapter meetings or formal balloting.
Section 3.
The Executive Director of ASIST must be a signatory on all Student
Chapter accounts.
Section 1.
The Executive Committee of the Student Chapter shall consist of
the Chapter Officers. The Executive Committee shall conduct and
manage the affairs of the Student Chapter, subject to these bylaws,
and shall possess all powers necessary or incidental to that purpose,
including the right to appropriate and expend Student Chapter funds.
Section 2.
The standing committees of Student Chapters shall include a Nominating
Committee and other such committees as the Executive Committee or
the membership may determine.
Section 3.
The Nominating Committee should consist of a chair and two Student
Chapter members, appointed by the Student Chapter Chair. This Committee
shall present a list of nominees to the members of the Chapter,
as provided in Article IV, Section 6. The Nominating Committee,
at its discretion, may present more than one candidate for any one
office.
The Student Hapter retains its charter at the discretionof the
ASIST Board of Directors. In the event of dissolution of the Student
Chapter, the assets of the Student Chapter shall, after satisfaction
of all just liabilities and obligations thereof, be paid into the
general treasury of ASIST.
These bylaws may be amended by an affirmative vote of two-thirds
of the members of the Student Chapter voting on the proposed amendment.
Such amendment may be proposed by petition of a minimum of ten percent
of the Student Chapter members filed with the Chair, or by proposal
of the Executive Committee of the Student Chapter or the ASIST Board
of Directors. Such amendment will be voted upon by formal ballot
within 60 days after receipt by the Chair. The Secretary-Treasurer
shall prepare and distribute a copy of the proposed amendment together
with a ballot to each voting member of the Student Chapter setting
forth a date not less than 20 nor more than 30 days from the date
of the mailing of the ballot, by which date all valid ballots which
are returned are counted. No amendment by these bylaws may take
effect unless and until it has been certified by the ASIST Board
of Directors as being in harmony with the Charter, Constitution,
and Bylaws of ASIST. If so certified, the amendment shall be effective
as of the date of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Student
Chapter.
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