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RULES AND REGULATIONS

OF THE

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

I.

At any meeting of this Committee, in the absence of the Chairman, one of the attending members shall be chosen to preside.

II.

The action of this Committee upon any subject or matter within the limits of its powers shall be by resolution, in writing. If acted upon by correspondence, the Chairman of the District Committee which proposes or first adopts it will certify such resolution to the Secretary of this Committee, who shall transmit a copy thereof to the Chairman of each other District Committee, who shall then obtain and certify to the Secretary of this Committee the vote of his District Committee. The vote of a majority of each District Committee shall be so certified as its vote, and the Secretary of the General Committee shall enter upon the minutes of the proceedings, as the action of the General Committee, whatever shall be the result of, or sustained by the vote of, at least five District Executive Committees. And in case amendments to such resolution shall be adopted and certified from any District Committee, they shall be acted upon in like manner.

III.

The General Executive Committee and the District Executive Committees may transact business without assembling, and through correspondence by their Chairman or Secretary whenever directed by the Chairman of the General Executive Committee.

IV.

In case of filling a vacant office by correspondence, the Secretary of this Committee shall invite each District Committee to nominate persons therefor, and shall thereafter transmit a list of the persons so nominated to each District Committee, which shall vote thereon in like manner as provided in the second rule.

V.

In addition to the above methods of transacting business by the General Executive Committee, any member thereof may transmit to the Chairman any resolution, in writing, upon any subject whatever, and if the Chairman shall approve of submitting the same to the Committee, he shall forward it with such approval to the Secretary, who shall thereupon print and submit the same to all the members of the Committee, by mail, who shall forthwith return their votes thereon to the Secretary. Ten negative votes shall prevent the passage of any such resolution, and if that number shall not be received by the Secretary within ten days after he shall have mailed it to the members, such resolution shall be adopted, and so entered by the Secretary in the minutes; provided, such resolution receives a majority of the votes cast, and at least four affirmative votes. The Secretary shall submit, with every resolution, so sent by him, a copy of this clause of Rule V.

VI.

The Secretary shall promptly transmit to every officer of the Association (which includes all the Standing Committees), and also publish in the Albany Law Journal a statement of every resolution of this Committee, adopted by correspondence, and a transcript of the minutes of every meeting of this Committee.

VII.

Whenever the name of any member of the Bar shall have been duly transmitted to the Executive Committee, or its authorized officers, for the action of the Committee, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of this Committee to transmit to each of the members of this Committee a communication stating that certain persons have been duly proposed for membership, giving the names and addresses of such persons and calling upon the members of the Executive Committee to pass upon the names of the persons so proposed; and any applicant so proposed, in the absence of any dissenting vote cast after the expiration of ten days, in response to such communication, shall thereby be and become a member of the State Bar Association, upon complying with the Constitution and By-laws. The names of such persons as shall not meet with such approval shall be subsequently acted upon by the Executive Committee.

CANONS OF ETHICS

ADOPTED BY

THE NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION AT ITS THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING HELD IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO

ON THE 28th AND 29th OF

JANUARY, 1909.

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