CONSTITUTION OF THE
CENTRAL INDIANA CHAPTER
AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
ARTICLE I - NAMEThis organization shall be known as the Central Indiana Chapter of the American StatisticalAssociation.
ARTICLE II - PURPOSEThe purpose of this organization shall be to foster, in the broadest manner, statistics and statisticalapplications and to promote unity and effectiveness of effort among all groups in the central Indianaarea having an interest in or being concerned with statistics.
ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIPMembership in the Chapter will be by approval of the Chapter Executive Committee. ThisCommittee may delegate this function of approval. The membership of this organization shall consistof three categories:1. Regular Members: Persons admitted to membership who hold either Full or Affiliatemembership in the American Statistical Association.2. Associate Members: Persons admitted to membership who are interested in statistics, in general,or in the organization, in particular, but who are not members of the American Statistical Association.3. Non-Voting Members: Persons admitted to membership who are interested in statistics, ingeneral, or in the organization, in particular, but who do not pay local chapter dues.
ARTICLE IV - OFFICERSThe officers of the organization, who shall be Full ASA Members, shall be a President, VicePresident, Secretary, Treasurer, Past President, and Chapter Representative to the ASA Council ofChapters. The officers, with the exception of the Chapter Representative, shall be duly elected by amajority vote of the Regular and Associate Members. The Chapter Representative shall be appointed bythe Executive Committee. The Executive Committee may appoint a Full ASA Member to fill anyvacancy which occurs in an office between elections.
ARTICLE V - TERMS OF OFFICE AND ELECTIONSA person elected as Vice President shall serve in successive one year terms in each of the positionsof Vice President, President, and Past President. The Secretary and Treasurer will serve 2-year termswith the Secretary elected in one year and the Treasurer in the next year. Each term of office starts on aSeptember 1st and ends on an August 31st of a subsequent calendar year. The Chapter Representativeshall serve a 3-year term with the dates determined by the ASA Council of Chapters rotation pattern.The Nominating Committee shall annually select candidates for the Vice President and whicheverother position, Secretary or Treasurer, is scheduled for election that year. The Secretary and Treasurerare eligible for renomination to the same position without limit. The Past President shall not be eligiblefor immediate renomination as Vice President. At least two candidates should be presented for the VicePresident position. However, since continuity is desirable in the Secretary and Treasurer, thenominating Committee might present only one name for those positions.Election Process:1. The Secretary will provide the President and Past President with a list of eligible voters.Eligible voters are members who have paid chapter dues within one year prior to the election.2. The Secretary will send out ballots. Email will be used for all members who have e-mailaddresses on file. Other eligible voters will receive their ballot via US Mail.3. Eligible voters may cast their vote on a printed copy of the ballot, sealed in an envelope. Tobe valid, the outside of this envelope must be marked with (a) the words "ASA BALLOT" (b) theprinted voter name and (c) the voter's signature. This envelope may be mailed to either the President orPast President via U.S. Mail or Inter-Office Mail. Alternatively, chapter members may cast their ballotsvia e-mail to either the Chapter President or Past President.4. The President and Past President will meet together to open, identify and count eligibleballots. The President will announce election results at the Annual Business Meeting.
ARTICLE VI - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEThe Executive Committee shall consist of the officers described in Article IV and any Chairs ofstanding committees who are not also Chapter officers.
ARTICLE VII - STANDING COMMITTEESThe committees of the Chapter shall consist of the five committees described below and of suchspecial committees as may be appointed by the President. Except as noted below, chairs of the standingcommittees will be appointed by the President and shall serve until their successors are appointed. ThePresident, in conjunction with each committee chair, shall also appoint members of each committee.The five Standing Committees shall be:1. Arrangements & Publicity: with the secretary and treasurer as co-chairs, to make necessaryreservations and arrangements for technical and social meetings of the Chapter and to inform theAmerican Statistical Association and the public of the significant activities of the chapter.2. Education & Membership: with the president as chair, to handle requests from outsidegroups for speakers on statistics and to supervise Chapter educational activities, including quantitativeliteracy efforts with private and public schools and to encourage local individual memberships.3. Nominating - with the Past-President as chair, to present a list of nominees for all electiveoffices.4. Program - with the Vice President as chair, to schedule chapter meetings and speakers.5. Web - with Webmaster as chair, to maintain the Central Indiana ASA site on the World WideWeb.
ARTICLE VIII - CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVEThe Representative to the Council of Chapters shall be a Full ASA Member. The Representativeshall be appointed every third year by the Executive Committee, once the election results for that yearare known. The name of the Representative shall be sent to the ASA office before August 1 of that year.The Representative shall serve the Chapter for a period of 3 years following the pattern prescribed bythe Council of Chapters.
ARTICLE IX - MEETINGSThere shall be six or more regular chapter meetings, including an Annual Business Meeting, eachChapter Year. The Chapter Year shall start in September and run through August of the followingcalendar year. The Annual Business Meeting will be in April, unless a different meeting is specified tobe the annual meeting by the Executive Committee.
ARTICLE X - FINANCEThe amount of the annual Chapter Dues, for Regular and Associate Members, shall berecommended by the Executive Committee and approved by a majority of Regular and AssociateMembers voting at the Annual Meeting of this organization. The proposed dues changes shall havebeen sent to each Regular and Associate Member at least two weeks prior to the date of the meeting. (Aresponse by mail from a member will be considered the same as the vote of a member attending themeeting).Each time a new Treasurer takes office, the President shall appointment one or more auditor(s)who will audit the outgoing Treasurer's books. In addition, an audit will be performed whenever aTreasurer is reelected and three years or more have elapsed since the last audit. The auditor(s) shallsubmit a written report of their findings to the Membership by the second Regular Meeting after theirappointment.
ARTICLE XI - NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAny and all applicable provisions of the Constitution of the American Statistical Association shallbe considered a part of this Chapter Constitution.
ARTICLE XII - AMENDMENTSThis Constitution may be amended by an affirmative 2/3 (two-thirds) vote of the voting Chaptermembers at any meeting, provided notices of such a meeting and the proposed amendment shall havebeen sent to each Regular and Associate Member at least two weeks prior to the date of such a meeting.(In the event of a mail ballot, the votes of the members responding will be considered the same as thevote of a member voting at the meeting).
ARTICLE XIII - DISSOLUTIONUpon the dissolution of the Chapter, assets shall be distributed to the AMERICAN STATISTICALASSOCIATION, 1429 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, for one or more exempt purposeswithin the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, or correspondingSection of any future Federal tax code.