"1. Membership in this Association shall consist of
established Rotary Clubs which shall pay the current per capita tax, and
shall have been duly admitted to membership. Only one Rotary Club from any
city shall be eligible to membership in this Association, excepting in the
city of Greater New York, where there may be one club in each of the
respective five boroughs thereof.
2. Upon the payment of the dues by an affiliating Rotary
Club, there shall be issued to such Rotary Club a certificate signed by the
President, Secretary and Treasurer of this Association, under its seal,
setting forth the fact that such Rotary Club is an affiliating Rotary Club
of this Association and that such affiliating Rotary Club , in accepting
such certificate, thereby ratifies and agrees to be bound by the
Constitution and By-Laws of this Association.
3. All applications for membership in this Association shall
be made to the Secretary in writing, accompanied by a copy of the Club's
Constitution and By-Laws and a roster of its membership, and shall be by him
referred to the Board of Directors, whose action in accepting or rejecting
said application shall be final.
4. Any affiliating Rotary Club failing for two successive
years to send a delegate or delegates to the annual convention shall thereby
forfeit its membership in this Association.
5. Any affiliating Rotary Club which shall be more that
sixty (60) days in arrears of dues shall cease to be a member of the
Association, provided two notices of such arrearages shall have been duly
given by the Secretary by registered mail.
6. Any officer or member of this Association may, for cause,
by a majority vote of the Board of Directors, be disciplined or suspended,
and by a two-thirds vote expelled; provided such officer or member shall
have been served with a copy of the charges at least 30 days before the
hearing thereon, and shall have been given notice of the time of such
hearing; such officer or member shall be entitled in 30 days file a written
notice of appeal from the action of the Board of Directors, which appeal
shall be heard and decided at the next succeeding annual convention of this
Association.
7. Any member may resign from this Association and such
resignation shall become effective immediately upon its delivery to the
President or Secretary, providing all indebtedness of such member to the
Association has been paid.
8. Any member or officer may be reinstated by a two-thirds
vote of the Board of Directors upon payment of all arrearages."
