ARTICLE VII: ELECTIONS

SECTION A: NOMINATING COMMITTEE 

A nominating committee may be appointed by the Board of Directors in July of each election year.
This committee shall prepare a slate of nominees for the Executive Officers, Board of Directors, 
and AHA Delegate.  This slate shall be circulated or available to all voting members no later 
than September of the election year.  Officers-elect will assume duties of office on January 1 
of the following year.  The election shall be by ballot and shall be under the direction of the 
Election Officer (who is chairman of the nominating committee).  No absentee ballot shall be 
allowed. 

ARTICLE VIII:  COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS

SECTION A: TYPES AND DESCRIPTION 

1.   Standing Committees: 

  a. The Board of Directors shall establish standing committees as they deem necessary 
     to efficiently conduct the business, educational and social affairs of the Club.

  b. Any member of the General Membership may volunteer to be a member of a standing 
     committee. 

2.   Commissions: 

  a. The Board of Directors shall establish any commissions as they deem necessary to 
     efficiently conduct the business and educational affairs of the Club. 

  b. Members on these commissions will be elected by either the Board of Directors or 
     General Membership as is defined upon establishment. 

5.    Ad hoc Committees 

  a. The President may appoint ad hoc committees as he/she deems necessary to efficiently 
     conduct the affairs of the Club. 

SECTION B.  COMMITTEE ROSTER 

The Secretary of the Club shall maintain a roster of all committees, unless there is a Membership 
Chair in position who will maintain this responsibility.  The term of office of all committee and
 commission members shall begin when so appointed and terminate at the end of each election year 
or when the assignment is completed if before that date. 

ARTICLE IX: AMENDMENTS

These by laws may be amended, repealed, or new by laws adopted at a regular or special meeting 
of the membership by a two-thirds majority vote of a quorum of the voting membership in 
attendance at the meeting.  Thirty (30) days notice must be given to the membership stating 
the proposed amendment(s) before such amendment(s) may be brought before a regular membership 
meeting. 

ARTICLE X: POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND PURPOSES

Any policies, procedures, or purposes not addressed in these bylaws will be addressed in the 
IAHC “Policies, Procedures, and Purposes.”  These procedures may be changed by a simple majority 
vote of the membership at a general meeting provided the item is listed on the Agenda for that 
meeting. 

ARTICLE XI:   ENACTMENT

These by laws shall take effect and be in force from and after passage by the membership of the 
Club. 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT: 

That we, the undersigned, being members of the organizational group of the Insallah Arabian Horse 
Club do hereby certify that the foregoing bylaws, consisting of ten (10) articles were duly 
adopted as the by laws of the said Association on the 16th day of October, 2000. 

ATTEST: 

Jeanne Hale, President 

(Organizing Member)

Carol Darnell, Secretary 

(Organizing Member) 

Lorry Wagner, Treasurer

(Organizing Member)

REVISED:  5/10/05

Lorry Wagner, President

Georgine Ryter, Secretary

Lorry Wagner, Treasurer

 

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