Contents - IADR/AADR

year 1921, at times and places to be determined by the Association, or by the Council when it is
authorized to act for the Association.
SECTION 2. Special. Special meetings of the Association may be convened by the Council, and shall be
called at the request of one-fifth of the total membership.
ARTICLE III.
OFFICIALS
SECTION 1. Council.
(A) Authority. During the periods between annual meetings, the executive management of the
affairs of the Association shall be conducted by the Council, within the general authority voted to
it by the Association.
(B) Personnel.
(a) The Council shall consist of three elected representatives of each national Division.
Until the number of divisional representatives in the Council attains a total of at least
fifteen, the number necessary to constitute that total shall be elected from the American
Division of the Association.
(b) With the adoption of this Constitution, the terms of all the members of the existing
Council of the Association (selected on the basis of the provisional organization) shall
close automatically, when it shall become the duty of each of the three existing and
ratifying Sections 4 of the Association to elect by ballot five Councillors, the fifteen
Councillors thus elected to serve as, and to be, the Council of the Association, until their
successors will have been chosen in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
(C) Election of the divisional representatives. The representatives of the national Divisions in the
Council shall be elected by the respective national Divisions.
(D) Length of the term of service. The length of the term of service of the individual
representatives in the Council shall be determined by the respective national Divisions.
SECTION 2. Officers.
(A) Identical with those of the Council. The general officers of the Council shall be, also, the
officers of the Association. They shall be nominated by the Council, preferably though not
necessarily from its own membership, subject to formal confirmation by the Association.
(B) Nomination. The list of nominations for the offices of the Council and Association, for a
given term, shall be formally announced by the Council to each member of the Association at
least three months prior to the date of the annual meeting at which the same nominations will be
presented to the Association for its consideration.
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