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- | == Current ==
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- | See the {{subpage|Consolidated|current bylaws}} as consolidated from their amendments.
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- | == Official ==
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- | These are the bylaws as they have been officially filed.
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- | * {{link|Image:2001-12-08 Bylaws 0244.pdf|Bylaws created 2001-12-08}}
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- | * {{link|Image:2009-04-07 Bylaws 041 0638 10000607105272634.pdf|Bylaws amended 2009-04-07}}
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- | * {{link|Image:2015-04-09 Certificate of Accurate Copy 509709564.pdf}}
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- | ** received in e-mail {{subpage|2015-04-10 registry response}}
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- | * 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}})
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- | ** Re [[General Meetings/2015-05-05/Minutes#Bylaw Amendment|Special Resolution]] amending the bylaws passed at the 2015-05-05 General Meeting.
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| == Changing our bylaws == | | == Changing our bylaws == |
| We change the Bylaws by | | We change the Bylaws by |
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| Resolution with exact wording changing the Bylaws. | | Resolution with exact wording changing the Bylaws. |
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- | 2/ Giving at least 21 days notice (see Societies Act) of the general meeting at which the | + | 2/ Giving at least 2 weeks notice of the general meeting at which the |
| Special Resolution will be voted upon. | | Special Resolution will be voted upon. |
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- | 3/ Having quorum and having a 75% (see Societies Act) vote to adopt the Special Resolution. | + | 3/ Having quorum and having a majority (or perhaps 2/3 majority -- |
- | | + | depends on what our Bylaws say) adopt the Special Resolution. |
- | 4/ Sending the amended Bylaws off to [https://www.servicealberta.ca/812.cfm Alberta Corporate Registry] and having
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- | them approve them.
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- | "[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]"
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- | 5/ Sending a copy to the {{contact|Canada Revenue Agency}} for re-approval of our charitable status.
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- | Bylaws are more easily handled the same way legislation is. Each | + | |
- | paragraph is numbered (called a section). When you add a new section,
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- | you don't renumber the sections, you number the new section with a
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- | decimal. So between sections 22 and 23 you insert section 22.1.
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- | In my experience, motions to amend bylaws use the formal language of
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- | motions. It's possible that the provincial registrar will accept
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- | informal language, but I've never seen it tried.
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- | So a proposed special resolution might read
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- | "Moved that the bylaws of the society be amended by inserting after
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- | section 22 a new section which reads:
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- | 22.1 The members present at a general meeting may authorize all
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- | present to vote at that meeting by a motion so stating which is approved
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- | unanimously."
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- | or
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- | Moved that section 18 of the bylaws of the society be amended by
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- | inserting before "in writing" the text "by e-mail, telephone or other
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- | means of immediate delivery or".
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- | Formal language for motions are often difficult to read, so they are
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- | typically accompanied in the notice of the proposed special resolution
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- | with a before and after version of the bylaws and an informal
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- | explanation of what they accomplish and why they are needed.
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- | == Analysis ==
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- | * {{subpage|Officers appointed by Board}}
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- | == Proposed changes ==
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- | * (done) {{subpage|2015-04-10 board quorum and meeting format}}
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- | * {{subpage|2015-06-26 interim appointments to the board}}
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- | * {{link|Members:Contact/AGLC/GAIN/2016-04-21 Blairmore/Sug/0008}}
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- | * {{subpage|All present may vote}}
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- | == Past versions ==
| + | 4/ Sending the amended Bylaws off to Alberta Registries and having |
- | * {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23 12 24 59u-scan.pdf}}
| + | them approve them. May take about a month. |
- | * {{link|Image:Members:2016-08-23 12 27 42u-scan.pdf}}
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- | * {{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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