American Society of Civil Engineers
New Jersey Section
Constitution and Bylaws
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I. NAME AND OBJECT
Section 1. The name of this organization shall be the
New Jersey Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
hereinafter called the "SECTION." The official abbreviation
for the Section shall be "NJ-ASCE."
Section 2. The objective of the New Jersey Section
shall be the advancement of the science and profession of civil
engineering for the benefit of humanity in a manner consistent with
the objectives of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Section 3. Among the means for achieving such
objectives shall be: meetings for the presentation and discussion of
professional papers and for social and professional relations;
cooperation with other engineers, as individuals or as constituent
bodies of other organizations; participation in local and State
affairs; and exercise of influence in properly solving engineering problems.
ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. All members of the American Society of
Civil Engineers of all grades, who subscribe to the Constitution and
Bylaws of the New Jersey Section, who have paid the current
appropriate dues of the Section, shall be Subscribing Members of the
Section. All other members of the American Society of Civil Engineers
of all grades, whose addresses of record are within the boundaries of
the Section, as defined by the Society, shall be Assigned Members of
the Section.
Section 2. Only Subscribing Members in the grades of
Honorary Member, Fellow, Member and Associate Member shall have the
right to vote and to hold office or to represent the Section.
Subscribing Members in all grades shall have the right to serve on committees.
Section 3. Members of the American Society of Civil
Engineers residing in a border county may, if they choose to pay dues
to more than one Section or Branch, be Subscribing Members to more
than one Section or Branch.
Section 4. A Younger Member is a Section Member who is
recognized as a Younger Member as defined in Article IV of the ASCE Bylaws.
ARTICLE III. DUES AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Section 1. There shall be no entrance fee for Section membership.
Section 2. The annual dues shall be fixed by the Board
of Directors. Dues shall be payable in advance annually in accordance
with the Society Bylaws, except that no dues shall be required from
Subscribing Members who are exempt from payment of Society dues. Dues
of the Sections and Branches shall be collected together by the
National organization. Dues of Technical Groups or Younger Member
Group shall either be collected separately or itemized separately on
the annual billing.
Section 3. Section activities shall be funded through
an apportionment of the Section, Branch and Student Chapter dues and
allotments. The Section funds withheld by the Section to cover
essential functions shall be in direct proportion to the percentage
of members assigned to each of the Branches. The dues and allotments
remaining after all essential functions and expenses have been met
will be transferred to the respective Branches in entirety based upon
the proportion of subscribing and assigned members, respectively.
Section 4. Section voluntary contributions are
designated monies to be used as agreed to annually by the Board of Directors.
Section 5. Any Subscribing Member whose dues are more
than one year in arrears shall cease to be a Subscribing Member of
the Section unless otherwise ordered by its Board of Directors.
ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS AND GOVERNING BODY
Section 1. Composition of Section Board of Directors
(a) The Section will be governed by a Board of
Directors consisting of nine members.
(b) The Officers of this Section shall be a president,
a vice president, a secretary, the latest active past-president, and
a treasurer.
(c) The Directors of this Section shall include the
Officers and; not less than five elected directors duly nominated and
elected by Branch members.
(d) The Secretary shall be appointed by the Section
President from among the five elected Section Directors.
All of the above shall constitute the Board of
Directors in which the government of the Section shall be vested.
Section 2. The annual election of officers and elected
directors shall be by signed mail or facsimile ballot.
Section 3. The term of the office of the President,
First Past President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and all
Directors shall be one year. The term for each newly elected officer
or director shall begin at the close of the Annual Meeting
immediately following their election and shall continue for the
period named or until a successor is duly elected. The President and Vice-President
may not serve a consecutive term.
ARTICLE V. MEETINGS
Section 1. Semi-annual meetings shall be held in the
fall and one in the spring. Other meetings shall be called at the
discretion of the Board of Directors, or by the President upon the
written request of at least ten subscribing members. Branches and
other subsidiary units of the Section shall all participate in the
Annual Meeting and will not schedule conflicting or competing meetings.
Section 2. Notice of call for a special meeting shall
be mailed to all Subscribing Members not less than 15 days in advance
of the meeting date.
Section 3. Regular meetings shall be held at such
times and places as the Board of Directors shall appoint, notice of
which will be sent immediately by the Secretary to all major
subsidiary units to avoid scheduling conflicts.
Section 4. If any Director is unable to attend any
scheduled Section meeting, that Director may appoint a substitute
voting delegate from the Director's respective Branch.
ARTICLE VI. SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS
Section 1. Subsidiary organizations may be formed
within the New Jersey Section, to implement the objectives of the
Section, to promote interest in the Society and to provide members of
the Section a better opportunity for participation in local
professional activities, in accordance with the provisions of the Bylaws.
Section 2. The President, Chair, or other duly elected
officer of any Section subsidiary organizations
may attend meetings of the Section Board of Directors and participate
without vote.
ARTICLE VII. BYLAWS
Section 1. The Section shall adopt Bylaws consistent
with this Constitution for the guidance of officers and members.
ARTICLE VIII. REVIEWS AND AMENDMENTS
Section 1. This constitution shall be reviewed at
least every five years and may be amended only by the following procedure:
(a) A proposed amendment to this Constitution must be
submitted to the Section Secretary in a written petition signed by
not less than 15 Subscribing Members of the Section or by the Chair
of the Section Committee on Constitution and Bylaws.
(b) The proposed amendment shall be reviewed by the
Section Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, which may submit it to
the ASCE Council of Vice Presidents for review prior to the Section
Committee on Constitution and Bylaws recommendation to the Section
Board of Directors. Following approval by the Section Board of
Directors the amendment shall be submitted to the ASCE Council of
Vice Presidents for approval prior to the
submission of the proposed amendment to the membership for approval.
(c) The proposed amendment shall be submitted by mail
ballot to all Subscribing Members of the Section for voting by return
mail or by facsimile.
(d) To become effective the proposed amendment shall
receive an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the
Subscribing Members voting.
ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 1. No part of the net earnings of the Section
shall inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual
and the Section shall not participate in, or intervene in (including
the publishing or distribution of statements), any political campaign
on behalf of any candidate for public office.
Section 2. Upon dissolution of the Section, the assets
remaining after the payment of the debts of the Section shall be
distributed to such corporation, community chest, fund, or
foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious,
charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literacy or
educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or
animals, which would then qualify under the provisions of Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as now existing or as
hereafter amended, as the Board of Directors shall have designated
and in the absence of such designation, they shall be conveyed to the
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