ARTICLE VI APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES The members of the Executive Committee, except those first elected under this Constitution, shall be elected at the annual meetings. The President shall appoint all other standing committees within ten days after the adjournment of this and each annual meeting (and shall designate one member of each committee as its Chairman and one member as its Secretary)* and shall announce the appointees to the Secretary, who shall immediately notify the persons appointed. ARTICLE VII MEETINGS This Association shall meet annually (in the month of June, July, or August) † at such time and place as the Executive Committee may select, and those present at such meeting shall constitute a quorum. Such notice of the meeting shall be given as may be prescribed in the By-Laws. Special meetings may be called at any time by the Executive Committee upon such notice as may be prescribed in the By-Laws; and shall be called by said committee at any time upon the written request of twenty-five members, upon like notice. At a special meeting no business shall be transacted except such as specified in the call therefor, without the concurrence of at least four-fifths of those present; and at such a meeting forty members shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE VIII FEES AND DUES The admission fee shall be Five Dollars, and the annual dues shall be Two Dollars, to be paid as may be prescribed in the By-Laws: Provided, That the admission fee shall be in lieu of the annual dues for the current year in which it is paid. No member shall be qualified to exercise any privilege of membership while his fees or dues remain unpaid, when due. (Provided further, That all members of this Association in actual service in the Naval and Military forces of the United States during the present war shall be exempt from all dues during such service.) ‡ *That portion of the Article included in () was an amendment passed at the annual meeting of 1900. †That portion of the Article included in () is an amendment passed at the annual meeting of 1918. That portion of the Article included in () is an amendment passed at annual meeting in 1917. ARTICLE IX SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS Any member may be suspended or expelled for misconduct in his relation to this Association, or in his profession upon conviction thereof, in such manner as may be provided in the By-Laws; and all interest in the property of the Association of persons in any way ceasing to be members shall ipso facto vest in the Association. ARTICLE X VACANCIES In case of a vacancy in any office it shall be filled by appointment of the President until the next annual meeting: Provided, That a vacancy in the office of President shall be filled by appointment of the Executive Committee, of one of the Vice-Presidents. In case of a vacancy in any committee it shall be filled by appointment of the President until the next annual or special meeting. A person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office until his successor is elected or appointed and qualified. ARTICLE XI ANNUAL ADDRESS AND PAPERS At each annual meeting the President shall deliver an address upon some subject to be selected by himself, in which he shall make suggestions as to the work of the Association as he may deem proper. An address shall also be made by some lawyer (or other person)* of prominence, not a resident of the State, to be invited by the Executive Committee. And papers shall be read by not more than five members of the Association, to be selected by the Executive Committee, as prescribed in the By-Laws. ARTICLE XII AMENDMENTS This Constitution may be amended by a three-fourths vote of the members present at any meeting: Provided, That if it be an annual meeting, notice of the proposed amendment, subscribed by at least three members, shall be given on the first day of each meeting; and, if it be a special meeting, a similar notice, similarly subscribed, shall be given in the call therefor: Provided, however, That no change shall be made at any meeting at which less than forty members are present. *That portion of the Article included in () is an amendment passed at the annual meeting in 1915. ARTICLE XIII INCORPORATION This Constitution shall go into immediate effect. This Association shall be incorporated under the laws of the State of North Carolina at the present session of the General Assembly, and under such incorporation all money and property of said Association shall be vested in the President and Secretary and Treasurer, as trustees thereof, who shall pay over and deliver the same to said corporation as its property, as soon as the corporation is created by law. BY-LAWS SYNOPSIS (V-a Committee on Uniform State Laws-Duties of: To promote uniformity of legislation in the several States. To BY-LAWS III EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 5. They shall, at least sixty days before each annual meeting of the Association, select a place and a time (within the months of June, July, or August)† for holding such annual meeting, and prepare a printed program of the proceedings to be held thereat. A copy of such program and a notice of such meeting shall be mailed to each member of the Association by its Secretary. (V-a COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS It shall be the duty of the Committee on Uniform State Laws to promote uniformity of legislation in the several States, and to that end to examine such uniform acts as have been or may be approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and by the American Bar Association, and report to each annual meeting of this Association such acts as in the judgment of the committee should be enacted into law in this State. If any such act is approved by this Association the same shall be referred to the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform for appropriate action by that committee with a view to its enactment into law by the General Assembly.)‡ *That portion included in () is synopsis of an amendment passed at the annual meeting in 1918. †That portion included in () was stricken out and is an amendment passed at the annual meeting in 1918. The article in () is an amendment passed at annual meeting of 1918. |