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== Current ==
See the {{subpage|Consolidated|current bylaws}} as consolidated from their amendments.
== Official ==
These are the bylaws as they have been officially filed.

* {{link|Image:2001-12-08 Bylaws 0244.pdf|Bylaws created 2001-12-08}}
* {{link|Image:2009-04-07 Bylaws 041 0638 10000607105272634.pdf|Bylaws amended 2009-04-07}} 
* {{link|Image:2015-04-09 Certificate of Accurate Copy 509709564.pdf}}
** received in e-mail {{subpage|2015-04-10 registry response}}
* 2015-06-25 Notice to Alberta Corporate Registry of Bylaw Change ({{nbw|2015|06|25|signed}}, {{link|Image:Members:2015-06-25 Notice to Corporate Registry re Bylaw Amendment of 2015-05-05.odt|.odt}})
** Re [[General Meetings/2015-05-05/Minutes#Bylaw Amendment|Special Resolution]] amending the bylaws passed at the 2015-05-05 General Meeting.

== Changing our bylaws ==
We change the Bylaws by

1/ Sending each member (e.g. by e-mail) a notice of a Special
Resolution with exact wording changing the Bylaws.

2/ Giving at least 21 days notice (see Societies Act) of the general meeting at which the
Special Resolution will be voted upon.

3/ Having quorum and having a 75% (see Societies Act) vote to adopt the Special Resolution.

4/ Sending the amended Bylaws off to [https://www.servicealberta.ca/812.cfm Alberta Corporate Registry] and having
them approve them.
"[https://www.servicealberta.ca/718.cfm Society amendments, such as name, objective, or bylaw changes do not take effect until the prescribed information is filed with Corporate Registry]"

5/ Sending a copy to the {{contact|Canada Revenue Agency}} for re-approval of our charitable status.

Bylaws are more easily handled the same way legislation is.  Each
paragraph is numbered (called a section).  When you add a new section,
you don't renumber the sections, you number the new section with a
decimal.  So between sections 22 and 23 you insert section 22.1.

In my experience, motions to amend bylaws use the formal language of
motions.  It's possible that the provincial registrar will accept
informal language, but I've never seen it tried.

So a proposed special resolution might read

"Moved that the bylaws of the society be amended by inserting after
section 22 a new section which reads:

22.1  The members present at a general meeting may authorize all
present to vote at that meeting by a motion so stating which is approved 
unanimously."

or
   
Moved that section 18 of the bylaws of the society be amended by
inserting before "in writing" the text "by e-mail, telephone or other
means of immediate delivery or".

Formal language for motions are often difficult to read, so they are
typically accompanied in the notice of the proposed special resolution
with a before and after version of the bylaws and an informal
explanation of what they accomplish and why they are needed.

== Analysis ==
* {{subpage|Officers appointed by Board}}
== Proposed changes ==
* (done) {{subpage|2015-04-10 board quorum and meeting format}}
* {{subpage|2015-06-26 interim appointments to the board}}
* {{link|Members:Contact/AGLC/GAIN/2016-04-21 Blairmore/Sug/0008}}
* {{subpage|All present may vote}}

== Past versions ==
* {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23 12 24 59u-scan.pdf}}
* {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23 12 27 42u-scan.pdf}}
* {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23_12_32_56u-scan.pdf}}, {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23_12_33_29u-scan.pdf}}, {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23_12_34_15u-scan.pdf}}

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 * {{link|Image:2015-04-09 Certificate of Accurate Copy 509709564.pdf}}
 ** received in e-mail {{subpage|2015-04-10 registry response}}
-* 2015-06-25 Notice to Alberta Corporate Registry of Bylaw Change ({{link|Image:Members:2015-06-25 07 15 21u-scan.pdf|signed}}, {{link|Image:Members:2015-06-25 Notice to Corporate Registry re Bylaw Amendment of 2015-05-05.odt|.odt}})
+* 2015-06-25 Notice to Alberta Corporate Registry of Bylaw Change ({{nbw|2015|06|25|signed}}, {{link|Image:Members:2015-06-25 Notice to Corporate Registry re Bylaw Amendment of 2015-05-05.odt|.odt}})
 ** Re [[General Meetings/2015-05-05/Minutes#Bylaw Amendment|Special Resolution]] amending the bylaws passed at the 2015-05-05 General Meeting.