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Statues of the AG

• I. Purpose
• II. Domicile and members
• III. Executive Committee
• IV. General Assemblies
• V. Alteration of the statutes and liquidation
• VI. General terms

 

IV. General Assemblies of the AG

§ 21

1. The Executive Committee summons the AG's General Assemblies by notification of the members subject to a term of at least one month.

2. The Executive Committee determines place and date of the next General Assembly, preferably in agreement with a General Assembly.

3. The General Assemblies primarily serve scientific lectures and discussions, a general astronomical exchange of ideas as well as the consulting about community tasks.

4. In general, there has to be an annual ordinary General Assembly including the elections of the Executive Committee and auditing.

5. At certain circumstances, the Executive Committee is allowed to omit a General Assembly in a particular year, but not in two successive years.

6. After the opening of every ordinary General Assembly, the Executive Comittee has to report on the AG's activities since the last ordinary General Assembly.

§ 22

1. In urgent cases, the Executive Committee can summon an extraordinary General Assembly.

2. Besides, an extraordinary General Assembly is to summon at the request of more than a third of the members of the Executive Committee.

§ 23

1. Usually, resolutions of the General Assembly are made with simple majority.

2. Only the attendant members in the General Assembly are entitled to vote, except for the case of § 27.

§ 24

1. Election and votings about administrational affairs are normally held secretly.

2. The simple majority decides the votings .

§ 25

1. There has to be a protocol about the negotiations of every General Assembly.

2. It has to list the requests and resolutions and to include particular information on the electional results, i.e. the number of the cast votes and the distribution of votes.

3. The secretary's protocol, written according to § 14, is to be countersigned by the president respectively the head of the negotiations within the General Assembly.

4. The essential contents of the protocol is to be proclaimed to the members as a "message of the Executive Committee".

 

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