Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section
Section Statement of Organization and Procedure
(Approved by Council April
1982, Amended March 1989; Revised July 1999, April 2005)
ARTICLE I. Name
The name of this organization is the WATER
AND ELECTROLYTE HOMEOSTASIS SECTION (WEH) OF THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL
SOCIETY
ARTICLE II. Purpose
- The purposes of this Section are to:
- Advise the
Society on matters of interest to the members of the Section.
- Assist the Society, through representation
on the Joint Program Committee, in the organization of the scientific
meetings of the Society.
- Nominate individuals for membership on
Society committees.
- Be open to all members of the Society
expressing an interest in Section membership.
- Provide the President-Elect with
recommendations of and supporting material for individuals to be nominated
by the Society for awards.
- To recognize members who have made
significant contributions to the affairs of the Section and the Society.
ARTICLE III. Membership
Membership is open to
any member of the Society (student, affiliate, regular emeritus,
corresponding, or honorary) who wishes to become a member. Section
membership is conferred by designating Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis
Section as a primary, secondary, or tertiary section for affiliation
through the APS Membership Services Department.
ARTICLE IV. Officers
Section 1.
Steering Committee
The responsibility for
management and supervision of the affairs of the Section shall be vested
in a Steering Committee. The members of the Steering Committee shall be
the Chair, the Secretary-Treasurer, Committee on Committees
representative, the Chair of the Section Program Committee (SPC), two
councillors and the editor of the American Journal of Physiology:
Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. The SPC Chair will
serve as the Section representative to the Joint Program Committee and the
Section Chair will serve as the Section Advisory Committee (SAC)
Representative. A quorum for conducting official business for the Section
will be three of the seven members of the Steering Committee. The
Steering Committee will meet or converse twice yearly, i.e., at the annual
spring meeting, at a fall conference of the Society, by conference call,
or at the meeting of a parallel-interest society.
The immediate Past Chairs will serve on either the Steering
or Program Committees for one year to help faciliate the transition process.
Section 2. Steering Committee Members and Their Duties
The Steering Committee
members shall serve a three-year term and those terms shall overlap so
that no more than one member of the Steering Committee shall be elected
each year except in unusual circumstances.
The Chair shall call and
chair meetings of the Steering Committee and supervise the election
process in coordination with the Secretary-Treasurer. The Chair may
appoint committees that are necessary for the proper conduct of the
affairs of the Section.
The Secretary-Treasurer
shall keep the minutes of the Steering Committee and the membership list,
prepare and send the newsletter to the membership of the Section and
maintain fiscal records.
The SPC Chair shall
chair a committee composed of the members of the section’s steering
committee, one or more young people who are working in exciting new areas
of research, the editor of the parallel journal, and an SPC Chair-elect.
The SPC shall be charged with developing the Section’s scientific program
for the Experimental Biology meeting. The SPC Chair will interact with
the Society’s Joint Program Committee to ensure minimal overlap or
redundancy with respect to other sections’ programming activities and to
develop joint programs integrating more than one section.
Section 3. Election of Officers and Terms of Office
The terms of office
shall be for three years. The Chair should have served on the Steering
Committee prior to being elected to office. The Chair will be elected by
ballot vote of the regular membership with a primary affiliation in the
Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section prior to the expiration of
his/her respective term as a committee member, and on the occasion of an
election for membership on the Steering Committee.
Terms of office of all
members of the Steering Committee will begin and end at the close of the
annual spring meeting of the Society.
Section 4.
Nomination for Membership on the Steering Committee
Nomination for
membership on the Steering Committee will be made annually, as
appropriate, by the Section’s membership in response to a request by the
Steering Committee. Election will be by ballot distribution and counted
by the Membership Services Department of the Society. The election shall
be scheduled to take place prior to the annual spring meeting of the
Society.
ARTICLE
V. Dues
Dues will not be assessed.
ARTICLE VI. Amendments and Quorum of the Membership
Section 1. Amendments
Amendments to these
procedures must be proposed in writing to the Steering Committee by five
members at least two months prior to the annual meeting of the membership
which normally will be held at the Society’s spring meeting. The proposal
must then be sent to the members prior to the annual meeting of the
membership. Amendment requires the approval of two-thirds of a quorum.
Section 2. Quorum
The quorum for all
membership business meetings is no less than 25 members of the Section.
ARTICLE VII.
Awards
Awards will be made as
financial and other circumstances permit in order to recognize members of
the Section and the Society who have made substantial contributions to the
affairs of the Section and the Society. Student and new investigator awards
will also be made when appropriate. Nominations for awards will be accepted
when called for by instructions published in a newsletter.
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