Century Sportsman's Club, Inc.
By laws revision
January 03, 2005
republished January 23, 2005
By laws
ARTICLE 1 - Name
Name of the club shall be Century
Sportsman's Club, Inc.
ARTICLE 2 - Purpose
The purpose of the club shall be to
stimulate interest in hunting and fishing; to conserve wildlife and natural
resources; to own and maintain real estate and ponds and to promote social and
recreational gatherings in connection therewith.
ARTICLE 3 - Membership
SECTION 1
Regular membership shall be limited
to one hundred male sportsmen of good moral
character and at least the
legal drinking age of our state. All
members are encouraged to join G.O.A.L. or the NRA or both.
SECTION 2
Applications for membership endorsed
by three members in good standing may be
accepted at any board of
directors meeting.
Applicants must be present and
accompanied by a minimum of one endorser to be interviewed by the board of
directors.
Applicants shall be accepted to
waiting list by a two-thirds vote of the boards of directors and prompt
payments of the initiation fee, which is 25% of the yearly dues.
SECTION 3
Waiting list members shall be
issued, and expected to abide by club by laws and committee rules.
All waiting list members shall
remain there for a minimum of one month, during
which time they shall
be required to attend meetings and shall be assigned to a committee.
Their work and attendance record
shall be used to help determine their acceptance into regular membership.
3a
Members in good standing, resigning
from the club in writing and desiring to return to the club membership, shall
be allowed to return to the top of the waiting list.
Return to the membership; will
depend on an opening in membership.
3b
The waiting period may be
waived if the regular membership falls beneath 100 regular members.
SECTION 4
Applicants on waiting lists shall be
kept in order by date and notified in writing of vacancies as they occur.
Notified waiting list member shall
be accepted to the regular membership by being present for a majority vote of
regular meeting and prompt payment
Of dues.
Any member observed using drugs,
shall be reported to the board of directors
dismissal.
SECTION 5
The yearly dues shall be payable on
or before the annual meeting in January. At this time the locks shall be
changed.
5a
Any member not paid by the members meeting in January is considered
to be resigned.
SECTION 6
In view of the limited membership,
it shall be the policy of the club that each regular member shall be an active,
working member. Failure to fulfill work obligations shall be reported by the
chairman to the board of directors for disciplinary action.
SECTION 7
Any member not complying with local,
state and federal laws, the club by laws or committee rules or conducting
themselves in an undesirable manner in regard to sportsman or club activities
shall be reported to the board of directors.
A written notice stating the
violation and requesting their presence at the next board of directors meeting
shall be sent upon report.
Disciplinary action may be accepted
by a two-thirds vote of the board of directors following review.
7a
Any member observed using drugs
shall be reported to the board
of directors for dismissal.
SECTION 8
Any member in good standing who is
62 or more years of age, and who has had at least 5 years of continuous
membership to his credit, can be elected to honor life membership by a 2/3 vote
of the board of directors.
Favorable consideration shall be based upon the member's record of activity
within the club and regularity of attendance.
Honor life membership shall exclude all further payments of dues but shall
include full club privileges, including the power to vote and hold office.
Such membership shall not be counted
as part of the limited regular membership.
SECTION 9
After serving a
minimum of one full year's term. Past presidents shall remain active
members and will be honor life members, and such membership shall not be
counted as part of the limited regular membership.
9a
Honor, life, past presidents and
sustained life members shall be excepted to remain
active by attending meetings and participating in club functions of their own
will.
Your experience and input is valuable to all. Their names will be
included in the roll call, at regular meetings.
SECTION 10
Sustained
Life Membership
Closed December 1999
For a one-time fee sustained life
membership shall exclude all further payment of dues but shall include
privileges including the power to vote and hold office. Such membership shall
not be counted as part of the limited regular membership.
Cost
Ten times yearly dues. Dues paid
during the year of application are deductible. To be paid in full at any board
of directors meeting with application. Persons over 52 years of age pay on a
declining scale (10% per year)
Qualifications:
Active club member for a minimum of five years.
Members are chosen by continuous seniority.
Club protection:
Maximum 10% to be
eligible in any one year.
Each applicant must have a member on
the waiting list to replace himself. Regular membership shall not drop below
one hundred and waiting list.
A ceiling on sustained life
membership shall be set at no more than one
hundred member's at one
time. There shall be no refund of any kind.
To apply:
Applicants shall be accepted by being
present for a two-thirds vote of any
board of directors
meeting and prompt payment of fee.
ARTICLE 4 - Meetings
SECTION 1
Regular meetings shall be held
monthly, on the first Wednesday.
Attendance by all members is
mandatory at the annual meeting in January.
If the first Wednesday 1s a holiday,
the meeting shall be held on the second
Wednesday.
All regular and waiting list members
shall be present for a roll call at each
meeting and be in
attendance throughout said meeting.
Should any member have reasonable
cause justifying his regular absence from meetings, such as second shift
workers, he must notify in writing the membership chairman of such cause prior
to the January regular meeting.
All causes shall be accepted at the
discretion of the Board of Directors.
Any member who misses three
consecutive regular meetings in a year shall be reported to the board of
directors for disciplinary action.
SECTION 2
Special meetings may be called by
the president or the board of directors upon three days notice specifying the
purpose of such meeting.
SECTION 3
Meetings of the board of directors
shall be held monthly, on the third Wednesday.
A roll call shall be taken at each
directors meeting and absence without a cochairman present from three meetings in
one year shall be considered resignation from office, at the discretion of the
board
SECTION 4
A quorum at club meetings shall be
twenty percent of regular members, at directors meetings fifty percent of the
directors.
Either chairman or cochairman must
be present. The parliamentary rules in Roberts Rules of order revised
shall govern all meetings.
ARTICLE 5 Officers and
directors:
SECTION 1
The officers of the club, consisting
of a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, together with the
chairmen of all committees shall constitute the board of directors and as such
shall have the powers of the corporation not reserved to the members.
The board shall report its actions
on behalf of the club at every regular meeting and upon any reasonable request
by a member.
SECTION 2
The duties of the officers shall be
those pertaining to their offices and they shall be elected in November and
take office at the annual meeting to serve for a term of one year or until
their successors are elected.
SECTION 3
The president shall not be elected
to a term of office, for more than two consecutive years. Upon completion of his term, he may chair any
other committee if elected by the members through election.
SECTION 4
The treasurer shall collect all
funds of the club and issue receipts from a duplicate receipt book, keep a true
account of such funds and deposit them in a bank or banks designated by the
board of directors, and disburse them only in payment of bills duly authorized
by the finance committee in writing .He shall be bonded in an amount specified
by the board of directors.
SECTION 5
The board of directors shall be
authorized to determine and fill all vacancies among officers and committee
chairmen until the next annual meeting.
SECTION 6
The annual orientation of elected
officers and chairmen shall be held on the second Wednesday of December. All of
the present and elected officers and chairmen are required to attend and
provide for an orderly change in command.
SECTION 7
Any officer or chairman
who resigns from the board of directors in a disruptive manner during a
meeting, shall be deemed out of order and will be subject to disciplinary
action by the board of directors. To remain a member in good standing only
formal written resignation of office or chairmanship shall be accepted at the
next board meeting.
ARTICLE 6 COMMITTEE
SECTION 1
The committees as required for the
proper operation of the club shall be appointed and approved at the July board
of directors meeting. Special committees shall be appointed as deemed necessary
by any meeting of the club or the board of directors.
1a
Committees may be combined and or dissolved if deemed necessary
voted by 2/3 the vote at any regular club meeting.
SECTION 2
Committee chairmen, except the
finance committee, shall be elected at the November meeting to serve for a term
of one year or until their successors are elected, they shall appoint
additional members to their committees and report their appointments at the
annual meeting in January.
SECTION 3
Duties of the committees and their
rules, except the finance committee, shall
be according to the rules set down
by each committee, and these rules shall be presented to and reviewed by the
board of directors at the February board meeting for publication in March.
SECTION 4
The finance committee shall consist
of the treasurer and four other members, one elected at the November meeting
each even number year and one appointed each odd numbered year, by the board of
directors, for a term of four years or until his successor is elected or
appointed. The committee shall elect its own chairman, and shall be responsible
for the management and investment of all club funds, subject to the approval of
the board of directors.
SECTION 4 A
The finance committee shall report
quarterly to the club body on all financial activities at the regular meeting
in Jan, April, July and Oct.
SECTION 5
The finance committee shall
recommend a budget for the year at the February regular meeting, which may be
adopted or reduced by two third vote of such meeting.
SECTION 6
Any motion duly seconded which
proposes expenditures in excess of the adopted budget shall be referred to the
board of directors, treasurer, finance chairman or cochairman who shall
investigate and report at the next regular meeting.
SECTION 7
All committee chairmen shall be
required to keep record of income and expenses and submit monthly reports to
the finance committee chairman at each board meetings. The finance committee
shall report on the club's income and expenses of the previous year at the January regular meeting.
ARTICLE 7 - DISSOLUTION
SECTION I
Voluntary dissolution of the
corporation shall be affected only by a majority vote in writing of all
members. The board of directors, constituting a dissolution committee to close
the corporation's affairs, shall do so with all expediences,
without remuneration.
SECTION 2
Said dissolution committee shall
continue the corporation as a body corporate for three years, solely for the
purposes of liquidation, and shall finally divide its remaining assets among
the members in good standing as of the date of the dissolution vote, in
proportion to the number of years and months of continuous membership of each
member since the last date of becoming such, according to the record of the
membership committee.
ARTICLE 8 AMENBMENTS
SECTION 1
These by laws may be amended by two
thirds vote of any regular meeting, provided the proposed amendment was
presented in writing and read at the previous regular meeting, and that the advise of such amendment was included in the notice of the
meeting at which amendment is to be voted. All amendments become effective upon
approval.
SECTION 2
The board of directors shall review
the by laws by the March board meeting. Any
amendments shall require
the re-publishing of the by law books, and supersede all previous by laws.