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CONSTITUTION
AND BYLAWS OF THE
UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS
ARTICLE
XIII.
MEETINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SECTION
11.
All resolutions to be acted upon by the General Assembly
shall be presented as follows:
(a)
Resolutions may be initiated by presentation to the
Resolutions Committee (care of the administrative secretary)
by a constituent congregation, a council or federation,
the Board of Trustees, a national affiliate, or a commission
not less than ninety (90) days prior to the date appointed
for the convening of the General Assembly. All such
resolutions shall be considered by the Resolutions Committee,
which shall have the power to endorse them, recommend
rejection of them, or suggest revisions thereof. All
resolutions so submitted, in recommendations of the
Resolutions Committee, including any suggested changes
or substitutes and reasons therefore. Proposed amendments
to such reported resolutions may be submitted to the
Resolutions Committee at least ten (10) days prior to
the date appointed for the convening of the General
Assembly.
The Resolutions Committee shall meet in the city in
which the General Assembly is being held at least forty-eight
hours prior to the opening of the first scheduled plenary
session to consider such resolutions and any suggested
amendments thereto, at which time proposers of the resolutions
or amendments shall have an opportunity to be heard.
(b)
Resolutions may be submitted to the Resolutions Committee
through the administrative secretary by petition of
the majority of the registered delegates of each of
at least five constituent congregations not later than
the end of the plenary session of the second day of
the General Assembly.
(c)
Additional resolutions may be presented to the General
Assembly at any time during the meeting of the General
Assembly by the Resolutions Committee and by other committees
of the General Assembly appointed by the chairman of
the Board of Trustees or by the presiding officer.
SECTION
12.
All resolutions referred or submitted to the Resolutions
Committee of the General Assembly as provided in subsections
(a) or (b) of Section 11 of this article shall be considered
by said committee, and such resolutions as it shall approve,
either as originally proposed or as modified, shall be
recommended by it to the General Assembly for consideration
and passage. The Resolutions Committee shall also report
any resolutions rejected by it or on which it failed to
act, and these resolutions may not be considered by the
General Assembly except upon the affirmative vote of the
majority of delegates present and voting without debate.
SECTION 13.
The adoption of resolutions recommended to the General
Assembly by the Resolutions Committee pursuant to subsection
(a) of Section 11 of this article shall require the affirmative
vote of a majority of the delegates present and voting.
Amendments to such resolutions that were previously submitted
to the Resolutions Committee prior to the ten-day period
described in subsection (a) of Section 11 of this article,
if properly submitted to the General Assembly for consideration,
shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the
delegates present and voting. Amendments to such resolutions
that were not previously submitted to the Resolutions
Committee prior to such ten-day period shall be considered
by the General Assembly only upon the affirmative vote
of a majority of the delegates present and voting without
debate. The adoption of resolutions presented to the General
Assembly pursuant to subsections (b) or (c) of Section
11 of this article shall require the affirmative vote
of three-fifths of the delegates present and voting.
SECTION
14.
Except as otherwise provided herein, meetings of the General
Assembly shall be conducted in accordance with parliamentary
usage as set forth in the latest revised edition of Robert's
Rules of Order.
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