ABCFP Bylaws - Association of BC Forest Professionals

BYLAW 9: FEES
9.1 The fees, levies, assessments, and charges applicable for a given fiscal year shall be set out in
a schedule to be published to the membership annually.
9.2 Repealed (July 2012)
9.2.1 Repealed (July 2012)
9.2.2 Repealed (July 2012)
9.3 Repealed (July 2012)
9.4 Repealed (July 2012)
9.5 Annual membership fees for all classes and categories of membership are due and payable
in full on the first day of the association’s fiscal year.
9.6 For persons applying to become enrolled or re-enrolled as Foresters-in-Training, Forestry
Pupils, or Trainee Forest Technologists, the enrolment or re-enrolment fee, as the case may be,
plus the applicable annual membership fee are payable at the time of application. In the event
the application is not approved, the enrolment or re-enrolment fee shall be forfeited and the
applicable annual membership fee shall be returned to the applicant.
9.7 Abatements, if any, for annual membership fees may only be granted on such terms and
conditions as council deems appropriate.
9.8 The terms and conditions for abatements, if any, established by council may differ between
classes of membership and between categories within classes of membership.
9.9 Council may assess one (1) or more penalties for overdue fees, levies, assessments, or
charges.
9.10 No memberships shall be renewed until any and all outstanding fees, levies, assessments,
charges, and/or penalties, including, without limitation, those assessed in the course of
disciplinary proceedings, have been paid in full or until such time as arrangements satisfactory
to council for their payment have been made.
9.11 Repealed (September 2012)
9.12 On written application and for due and sufficient cause council may, at its discretion, remit
or defer a member’s annual membership fees or associated penalties or both without removing
the member’s name from registration.
9.13 Examination fees are payable at the time of application to write any single examination
or group of examinations. In the event that an applicant does not write an examination as
scheduled, the examination fee shall be forfeited unless the applicant can show extenuating
circumstances satisfactory to council.
9.14 When an enrolled member applies to change his/her status from the enrolled to registered
membership class, he/she must pay the prescribed registration fee at the time application is
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