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3.1
Article 1 Name
1.0
Article 2 Purpose
2.0
Housestaff officers shall be eligible for membership in CIR without regard to race, sex, sexual
orientation, national origin, age, religion, disability,
political beliefs, or place of professional education.
Committee of Interns and Residents
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
4.1
its activities;
Section 8.2;
4.2
4.2.2 The President shall fix the date, time and place
of all meetings.
4.3
500 - 1,500
1,501 - 2,500
2,501 - 3,500
3,501 - 4,500
4,501 - 5,500
5,501 - 6,500
6,501 - 7,500
7,501 - 8,500
8,501 - 9,500
9,501 -10,500
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Number of
Vice Presidents
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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5.1
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Section 8.2;
phase-in of dues for residents in new CIR chapters with a collective bargaining agreement,
provided that said residents shall pay full dues
at the rate fixed by the House of Delegates in a
specified period of time not to exceed two years.
Phased in dues shall start at no less than 50%
of full dues. The Executive Committee will establish guidelines for phasing in of dues. Residents
whose dues are being phased in shall be considered full members.
5.2
5.3
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5.4
Officers who render services other than attendance at meetings of the Executive Committee
or House of Delegates may receive a reasonable
salary or payment for their services as determined
from time to time by the House of Delegates.
5.5
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5.6
CIR;
cause to be submitted a statement of the financial condition of CIR, his/her books and records
being at all reasonable times open and accessible to inspection and audit upon request by the
House of Delegates, the Executive Committee or
by such person or persons as either body may
designate.
5.7
Treasurer and
other person as
Committee from
on behalf of CIR
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6.0 The
6.1
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(a)
Elections for President, Executive Vice
President,
Secretary-Treasurer,
and
Regional Vice Presidents shall be held every
year at places, dates and times and in a
manner designated by the Election Board
(See Section 6.1).
(b)
The President, Executive Vice President
and Secretary-Treasurer shall be elected
by the entire membership. Regional Vice
Presidents shall be elected by the membership of their respective regions.
(a) The Executive Committee shall appoint an
Election Board. There shall be three Election
Board members and one (1) alternate. The
Executive Committee shall designate one
member as chair of the Board. No Election
Board member can be a candidate for any
office in the election.
(b)
The Election Board shall conduct and
supervise the nomination and election of
candidates in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. The Election Board
shall adopt rules for the nomination and
election process. The Election Board may
Committee of Interns and Residents
(d)
In the event of a contested election, the
Election Board shall provide for secret ballot
election preceded by a notice of election
mailed to each member at his or her last
known home address not less than fifteen
(15) days prior to the election.
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If a person eligible to stand for election
under the preceding paragraph is running
for Regional Vice President, they must run
for said Vice President position in the CIR
Region in which they will be working in the
next residency year. If said person will not
be working in a specific CIR Region, they
are only eligible to run for Vice President
from the New York Region.
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(c)
Nominating petitions of candidates for
President, Executive Vice President, or
Secretary-Treasurer shall require the signatures, printed names and identification by
hospital of no less than 200 members in
good standing from a minimum of four
regions, with at least ten signatures from
each of four regions.
(d)
A nominating petition for a candidate for
Regional Vice President shall require the
signatures, printed names and identification
by hospital of no less than 25 members in
good standing of the appropriate region. In
a region with two (2) or more hospitals, a
petition must have at least two (2) signatures
from a hospital in the region other than the
hospital in which the candidate is employed.
6.3
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6.4
6.5
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6.6
6.7
(c)
This section shall not preclude CIR, in
contested elections, from distributing to the
membership statements submitted by nominated candidates for office. Each nominated
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6.8
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Article 7 Dues
7.0
Article 8 Finances
8.0
8.1
8.2
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The Executive Director is in charge of the administration of CIR including the responsibility to
manage its affairs, represent CIR, and carry out
the decisions of the House of Delegates and
Executive Committee.
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
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The Executive Directors term of service, compensation, benefits and conditions shall be set by the
Executive Committee in an employment contract
which shall also include the method and conditions of reappointment or non-renewal at the end
of the specified period. The Executive Director
shall be selected and appointed pursuant to
Sections 4.1.5 and 5.1.5. The process for
removal of an Executive Director prior to the
end of a contract term shall be pursuant to the
terms of the Executive Directors employment
contract, and any recommendation for removal
by the Executive Committee or vote to remove
by the House of Delegates shall be pursuant to
Sections 4.1.8 and 5.1.6.
9.6
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Article 10 Amendments
By-Laws
Florida
Massachusetts
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New Mexico
New York
Northern California
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(a)
New regions may be established by the
Executive Committee, subject to approval by
the House of Delegates.
(c)
For the purpose of regional Vice-President
apportionment, a region with fewer than 500
housestaff officers shall be combined with
another region, as determined by the Executive
Committee.
procedures and regulations to implement the establishment of the associate member classification
of membership subject to the guidelines of the
International Union. The Executive Committee may
create or terminate Chapters of Associate Members.
(b)
Associate members shall have those rights
granted to them by the Executive Committee
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