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Proposed Change to the USA Fencing Bylaws

05/23/2017, 6:00pm CDT
By USA Fencing

A proposed amendment to the USA Fencing Bylaws is scheduled to be voted on July 31, 2017 at 6:00 pm ET. 

Please click on the following link to review the proposed bylaw amendment:

The procedures for bylaw amendments are as below:

Article XIV, Section 2

Amendments By the Board of Directors. These Bylaws may be amended or repealed, and new Bylaws may be adopted, by the Board of Directors acting in accordance with the procedures specified in this Section.

a. Procedure. Any member of the Board of Directors may move the adoption of amendments to these Bylaws or the adoption of new bylaws. Not later than forty-five days before the date of any meeting of the Board at which an amendment or new bylaw is to be considered, a general notice of the proposed change shall be published prominently on the USFA’s website. Such notice shall set forth the text of the proposed amendment, the time and place of the meeting of the Board of Directors at which the change is to be considered, and provide a means by which general comments of the membership relating to the proposal may be communicated for distribution to the Board of Directors not less than five days before the meeting. Amendments and new bylaws shall be adopted upon the affirmative vote of not fewer than two-thirds of the members of the Board of Directors then in office.

b. Effect. Amendments and newly adopted bylaws approved by the Board of Directors shall take effect at the close of the meeting at which they are adopted unless otherwise specified in the adopting resolution. Such resolution may specify that the amendment or newly adopted provisions shall take effect immediately or a later time.

Comments can be directed to members of the Board at bylawsfeedback@usfencing.org

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