Resolution to Amend the Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation
of the
Raleigh Amateur Radio Society, Inc.
October 13, 2026
WHEREAS, the members of the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society, Inc. (the “Society”) desire to amend the Society's
Bylaws dated January 25, 2000, (the “Bylaws”)
and the Society's
Articles of Amendment Nonprofit Corporation, approved on October 3, 2000, (the “Articles of Incorporation”);
NOW BE IT RESOLVED, that the Bylaws
be amended as follows:
The first paragraph of Section 6 – QUORUM TO CONDUCT BUSINESS of the Bylaws is hereby amended by deleting “ten percent (10%)” and replacing it with “five percent (5%)”
so that it reads as follows in its entirety:
“Notwithstanding other provisions of the By-Laws, five percent (5%) of the FULL voting membership must be present at a regularly scheduled meeting to be considered a quorum.”
The first paragraph of Section 4 – BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the Bylaws is hereby amended by deleting the second-to-last sentence and by deleting “at large” from the last sentence, so that the paragraph reads as follows in its entirety.
“The Society shall have a board consisting of no less than seven directors. The officers of the Society shall serve as directors of the Society and the election of Society officers shall also constitute the election of those officers to the Board of Directors. In addition, the immediate past president shall serve as a member of the Board of Directors.
Additional directors may be nominated and elected to the Board.”
Section 9 – COMMITTEES of the Bylaws is hereby amended to read as follows in its entirety:
“From time to time, the Board may designate individuals or create committees and appoint members as committee chairs to oversee or perform the various Society activities.
Such individuals and the chairs of such committees shall not thereby become members of the Board unless also nominated and elected to the Board by the FULL membership.”
Section 16 – DISSOLUTION of the Bylaws is hereby deleted in its entirety.
The Bylaws are hereby further amended by adding a new Section 16 – INTERPRETATION, as follows:
“Section 16 – INTERPRETATION
“All references to ‘mail’ and its grammatical variants in these Bylaws include email addressed to the email address in members’ profiles.”
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the Articles of Incorporation be amended as follows:
The Additional Articles of Incorporation are hereby deleted in their entirety except for the final section, titled DISSOLUTION.