ARTICLE I
- NAMESection 1. The name of
this organization shall be the "Western Society
of Weed Science,"
hereinafter called the
"Society". The Society area shall include
Alaska, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Hawaii,
Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,
Washington, Wyoming, Alberta,
British Columbia, and Saskatchewan.
ARTICLE II - OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the Society
shall be:
Section 1. To foster cooperation
among state, federal, provincial, and private
agencies in
matters of weed science in the
Society area.
Section 2. To support the Weed
Science Society of America and foster state and
regional
organizations of persons and
agencies interested in weed control and
management.
Section 3. To aid and support
commercial, private, and public agencies in the
prevention,
identification and solution of
weed problems.
Section 4. To foster and
encourage education and research in weed
science.
Section 5. To support
legislation governing weed control and
management programs and
weed research and education
programs.
Section 6. To assist in the
development of uniform weed control and
management and
eradication legislation and weed
seed quarantine legislation and regulations.
ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. Membership shall be
open to anyone interested in the objectives of
the Society.
Three types of membership are
provided: (a) active, (b) honorary, and (c)
sustaining.
Section 2. Active members are
individuals who are interested in weeds or their
control and
management, and who have paid
their annual dues to the treasurer. Active
members may attend all Society
meetings, vote on Society matters, hold office,
and receive official notices of
all meetings.
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Section 3. Honorary members are
selected individuals whose activities have been
largely
from outside the Western Society
of Weed Science who have significantly
contributed to the field of weed
science, and who are elected by two-thirds
majority of the Board of
Directors. Honorary members shall receive all
publications and announcements
of the Society but will not be eligible to vote
or
hold office.
Section 4. Sustaining members
are public or private individuals or
organizations interested
in the objectives of the
Society, who wish to participate in the
activities of the
Society and who have remitted
their annual sustaining membership dues.
ARTICLE IV- OFFICERS AND BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. The officers of the
Society shall be:
(1) President
(2) President-Elect who serves
as Program Chairperson
(3) Secretary
Section 2. The Board of
Directors shall be composed of:
(1) President
(2) President-Elect
(3) Secretary
(4) Immediate Past-President
(5) Representative to WSSA
(6) Chairperson of the Research
Section
(7) Chairperson of the Education
and Regulatory Section
(8) Member-at-Large – public
sector
(9) Member-at-Large – private
sector
(10) Representative to CAST
(11) Student Liaison Chairperson
Non-voting Board members:
(12) Chairperson-Elect of the
Research Section
(13) Chairperson-Elect of the
Education and Regulatory Section
(14) Treasurer/Business Manager
(15) Representative for
Constitution and Operating Procedures
(16) Student Liaison Chair-elect
(17) Website Editor
Section 3. The President,
President-Elect, and Secretary shall begin their
duties at the close
of the regular business meeting
at which they are installed and shall remain in
office until the close of the
next regular Society business meeting at the end
of
their respective terms. Other
members of the Board of Directors shall begin
their
term at the close of the meeting
at which they are installed, except the
Representatives to WSSA and CAST
whose term is described in ARTICLE IV,
Section 5 and 7 of the
Constitution.
Section 4. The Chairperson of
the Research Section and Chairperson of the
Education and
Regulatory Section shall serve a
one-year term beginning at the close of the
business meeting at which they
become chairpersons.
Section 5. The President, with
the consent of the Board of Directors, shall
appoint a Society
Representative to the Weed
Science Society of America who shall serve a
threeyear
term beginning at the Weed
Science Society of America Business meeting in
the year following appointment.
Section 6. The Board of
Directors shall appoint a Treasurer-Business
Manager to serve as
they may direct.
Section 7. The President, with
the consent of the Board of Directors, shall
appoint a Society
Representative to the Council
for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)
to
serve as they direct. The
Representative to CAST shall serve three (3)
years,
beginning after the CAST fall
meeting. The Representative to CAST shall be
voting member of the Board of
Directors.
Section 8. The Chairperson-Elect
of the Research Section and Chairperson-Elect of
the
Education and Regulatory Section
shall serve a one-year, non-voting, term
beginning at the close of the
business meeting at which they become
chairpersons-elect.
Section 9. The President, with
the consent of the Board of Directors shall
appoint a person to
serve as a Representative of
Constitution and Operating Procedures to a term
of
five years. This person shall be
parliamentarian on behalf of the President and
shall serve as a non-voting
member of the Board of Directors provided that (s)he
is not concurrently serving as a
duly elected member of that body.
Section 10. The President-Elect
will appoint a Member-at-Large who will take
office at the
same time as the President-Elect
and will serve on the Board for two (2) years.
The person selected by the
President-Elect should be from the private or
public
sector, whichever area is not
already represented on the Board of Directors by
the
other Member-at-Large.
Section 11. The Student Liaison
Chairperson shall serve a one-year term
beginning at the
close of the business meeting at
which the become Chairperson. The Student
Liaison Chairperson-elect is
voted into office by the student members of the
Society and then ascends to the
office Chairperson in the second year.
ARTICLE V - SOCIETY SECTIONS
Section 1. In promoting a full
exchange of ideas and information on weed
science and to
facilitate programming of
meetings, there shall be two general sections as
follows:
(1) The Research Section
(2) The Education and Regulatory
Section
Section 2. These two sections
may have sectional programs, project meetings
and informal
discussions of research reports
and other pertinent information. Such meetings
shall be at the regular meeting
at a time designated by the Program Committee.
Section 3. The Chairperson of
each of these sections shall be a member of the
Society Board
of Directors and shall be
elected as stated in Article VI, Section 3.
ARTICLE VI - ELECTION OF
OFFICERS
Section 1. The Nominating
Committee shall be appointed by the President,
with the advice
and consent of the Board of
Directors. They shall present their nominations
for
each office to be filled to the
Board of Directors for approval before
presenting
the nominees to the membership
for election by ballot. No member's name shall
be placed on the ballot without
the member's consent. All candidates for office
shall be selected from the
Society membership and shall be elected by the
majority of the members voting.
In case of a tie vote, the winner shall be
determined by flip of a coin in
the presence of both nominees or their
representatives at a meeting of
the Board of Directors.
Section 2. The terms of office
shall be as follows: The officer moving through
the office of
President-Elect, President, and
Immediate Past-President shall be a member of
the
Board of Directors for a
three-year term; the Secretary shall serve a
two-year
term.
Section 3. The Chairperson-Elect
of the Research and the Education and Regulatory
sections
shall be elected by the Society
and serve a one-year term. Following this, they
shall succeed as Chairperson of
their section for an additional one-year term.
The
Chairperson-Elect shall serve as
Chairperson if the Chairperson is unable to
serve
his/her term.
Section 4. If an elected officer
cannot serve the full term, the vacancy shall be
filled for the
interim by appointment by the
President with the advice and consent of the
Board
of Directors, unless otherwise
provided for in this Constitution. The
President-
Elect shall serve as President
if the President becomes unable to serve. This
service shall not constitute
his/her term as President. In case both the
President
and President-Elect are unable
to serve, the most Immediate Past-President who
is
willing to serve shall serve as
interim President until the members elect new
officers.
ARTICLE VII - STANDING
COMMITTEES
Section 1. There shall be
sixteen Standing Committees: Program, Finance,
Publications,
Local Arrangements, Nominating,
Public Relations, Nominations of Fellows and
Honorary Members, Site
Selection, Awards, Poster, Student Paper
Judging,
Necrology, Sustaining
Membership, Legislative, Herbicide Resistant
Plants, and
Education appointed by the
President with the advice and consent of the
Board of
Directors.
Section 2. The Program Committee
shall consist of the President-Elect as
Chairperson, the
two Section Chairpersons, and
such other members appointed by the Program
Committee Chairperson as
required to give all phases of weed science
adequate
representation.
Section 3. The Finance Committee
shall consist of a Chairperson and two members.
Terms
of office of this committee
shall be three years, established to expire
alternately so
that at least two members
continue over each year. The member serving
his/her
second year of the term shall
serve as Chairperson.
Section 4. The Publications
Committee shall consist of the President-Elect
(Chairperson),
Proceedings Editor, Research
Reports Editor, Newsletter Editor, and Website
Editor.
Section 5. The Local
Arrangements Committee shall consist of a
Chairperson and others as
needed.
Section 6. The Nominating
Committee shall consist of Chairperson,
Immediate Past-
President, and two rotating
members. Terms of office of this committee,
excluding the Immediate
Past-President, shall be as in Section 3 above.
Section 7. The Public Relations
Committee shall consist of a Chairperson and two
additional
members. Terms of office of this
committee shall be as in Section 3 above.
Section 8. The Committee for
Nominations of Fellows and Honorary Members
shall consist
of three Fellows of the Society
and the Immediate Past-President. Terms of
office
of this committee shall be as in
Section 3 above.
Section 9. The Site Selection
Committee shall consist of a Chairperson and two
additional
members. Terms of office of this
committee shall be as in Section 3 above.
Section 10. The Awards Committee
shall consist of a Chairperson and two
additional
members. Terms of office of this
committee shall be as in Section 3 above.
Section 11. The Poster Committee
shall consist of a Chairperson and two
additional members.
Terms of office of this
committee shall be as in Section 3 above.
Section 12. The Student Paper
Judging Committee shall consist of a Chairperson
and two
additional members. Terms of
office of this committee shall be as in Section
3
above.
Section 13. The Necrology
Committee shall consist of a Chairperson and two
additional
members. Terms of office of this
committee shall be as in Section 3 above.
Section 14. The Sustaining
Membership Committee shall consist of a
Chairperson and two
additional members. Terms of
office of this committee shall be as in Section
3
above.
Section 15. The Legislative
Committee shall consist of a Chairperson and two
additional
members. Terms of office of this
committee shall be as in Section 3 above.
Members shall be eligible for
re-appointment to serve a second 3-year term.
Section 16. The Herbicide
Resistant Plants Committee shall consist of a
Chairperson and five
additional members. Terms of
office of this committee shall be: Chairperson
appointed to a three-year term
and five other members appointed to three-year
terms, established to expire
alternately so that at least four members
continue over
each year.
Section 17. The Education
Committee shall consist of a Chairperson and
five additional
members. Terms of office of this
committee shall be: Chairperson appointed to a
three-year term and five other
members appointed to three-year terms,
established
to expire alternately so that at
least four members continue over each year.
ARTICLE VIII - DUES
Section 1. The amount of dues
and the method of collecting such dues shall be
determined
by the Board of Directors.
Section 2. In the event of the
dissolution of the Western Society of Weed
Science, the
physical assets shall be sold
and after payment of all debts, money possessed
by
the Society shall be given
prorated on a membership basis without let or
hindrance to agricultural
education institutes in the states and provinces
listed in
Article I, Section 1, by the
Board of Directors holding office at the time of
dissolution
ARTICLE IX - MEETINGS
Section 1. Meetings shall be
held at such time and places as may be
determined by the
President in consultation with
the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE X - BY-LAWS
Section 1. The Society may adopt
By-Laws.
ARTICLE XI - AMENDMENTS
Section 1. The Constitution and
By-Laws may be amended by majority vote of the
members
present at any regular meeting.