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MEETINGS OF THE MEMBERS Section 1. PLACE. All meetings of the members of the corporation shall be held at the principal office of the corporation or at such place within or without the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as may be fixed by the Directors or the President and stated in the notice of the meeting. Section 2. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the members of the corporation shall be on the ___________________________________ in each year at 7:30 P.M., or such other hour as may be stated in the notice of the meeting, for the purpose of electing the Board of Directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. if in any year the annual meeting is not held on said date, a special meeting may be held in lieu thereof at a later date and the business transacted at such meeting shall have the same force and effect as if transacted at the annual meeting. Section 3. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the members of the corporation may be called at any time by the President of the corporation, or a majority of the Board of Directors, and shall also be called upon the written request of three or more members of the corporation, addressed to the Clerk, and stating the object of such meeting. Section 4. NOTICE. Written notice stating the place, day and hour of all meetings of members and the purpose or purposes thereof shall be given by the Clerk, or in the case of his death, absence, incapacity or refusal, by any other officer, at least seven (7) days before the meeting to each member of the corporation by leaving such notice with him or at his residence or usual place of business or by mailing it postage prepaid addressed to him at either such address. No notice of the time, place or purposes of any annual or special meeting of the members of the corporation shall be required if every member entitled to notice thereof or his attorney thereunto duly authorized, by a writing which is filed with the records of the meeting, waives such notice. Section 5. QUORUM. At any meeting of the members of the corporation, fifteen members of the corporation in person or by proxy shall constitute a quorum. A majority of the members present, even though less than a quorum is present, may vote to adjourn from time to time, and any meeting so adjourned may upon the obtaining of a quorum be held without further notice than the announcement at the meeting when the vote for adjournment was taken, and any business may be transacted at any such adjourned meeting which might have been transacted at the meeting if a quorum had been present at the time originally set for the meeting. Section 6. VOTING. Each member of the corporation shall be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy duly appointed by instrument in writing which is subscribed by such member and which bears a date not more than six months prior to the meeting at which it is used. The election of directors, and upon demand of any member the vote upon any other question before the meeting, shall be by ballot. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members present at any meeting shall be necessary for action with respect to the matter voted upon, except as otherwise provided by law or these By-Laws. Section 7. ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the members may be taken without a meeting if a majority of all members entitled to vote on the matter consent to the action in writing and the written consents are filed with the records of the meetings of members. Such consents shall be treated for all purposes as a vote at a meeting.
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