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Next Election: May 2019 

ARTICLE VII. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

 

Section 1. The State Director shall be elected by secret, written ballot at the annual conference. A plurality vote of those members in good standing, voting in person, or by absentee ballot, shall be required for election or ratification.
The terms of officers so elected shall be from installation through the annual conference the second following year. (May 1996)

Section 2. (a) No person shall be eligible to hold the office of Regional Director unless he or she has been a member in good standing (to wit:Current on all dues, fees, and licenses as set forth in Article III, Section 2, and attended at least One (1) conference per year) for Three (3) years immediately prior to the annual conference. (May 2010) 

(b) No person shall be eligible to hold the office of State Director unless he or she has been a member in good standing (to wit:Current on all dues, fees, and licenses as set forth in Article III, Section 2, and attended at least One (1) conference per year) for Five (5) years immediately prior to the annual conference. (May 2010)

Section 3. Each member in good standing, when present in person at the annual conference shall have the right to nominate and vote for a declared candidate for office as set forth in Section 6 of this Article. In the event there are no declared candidates, nominations will be accepted from the floor.

Section 4. No vote, either by representation or by proxy, shall be allowed.

Section 5. Any member not in attendance at the annual conference may cast their vote by absentee ballot in the following manner:

(a) Said absentee ballot shall be received by the State Director by mail at least ten (10) days prior to the first day of the annual conference, or in the absence of a conference, on the date specified by the State Director.(May 2011)

(b) All absentee ballots submitted thereafter shall become null and void and shall not be counted.

(c) The members must use the approved absentee ballot form of the association.

(d) The absentee ballot must include all candidates and all matters the member wishes to vote by absentee ballot.

(e) All absentee ballots will be counted by the State Director or the State Director’s designee.

Section 6. Any member desiring to become a candidate for an elected office within the association, must adhere to the following, to wit:

a) Any State Director candidate must announce his or her candidacy to members of the association sixty (60) days prior to the annual conference. The notification shall be by letter or electronic written communication. (January 2012)

b) Any Regional Director Candidate shall notify their members in their regions of the declared candidate prior to sixty (60) days of the annual conference. The notification shall be by letter or electronic written communication. (January 2012)

c) All declared candidates for office must disclose all criminal convictions within the last ten years for which the court imposed sentence could have been thirty (30) days or more. (May 2009)