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For the review of Monthly Meetings of PYM:
Article V is the one remaining article of the Bylaws yet requiring approval.
Action on Article V will be taken at PYM sessions this March at Arch Street Meeting House.
All other articles of the Bylaws, as well as the Articles of Incorporation, were approved at our July 2001 Sessions.
- Article I
Name, Background Information and Intention§ 1: Name — The name of this corporation is Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (hereinafter Philadelphia Yearly Meeting).
§ 2: Background Information and Intention — Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was first established in the year 1681, and has been in continuous existence as a religious body and unincorporated association since that time. It is now considered appropriate to incorporate Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. In so doing, it is the intention of its members to continue without interruption the principles, practices and organization of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting as they exist at the time of the incorporation and as they may evolve in the future. It is not the intention of these bylaws to change, alter or amend the principles, practices and organization of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and for this reason these bylaws are intentionally brief.
- Article II
PurposeThe purpose of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is:
The practice of religion in the manner of the Religious Society of Friends; and
The continuation of the principles, practices and organization of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends as they exist at the time of this incorporation and as they may evolve in the future.
- Article III
Membership§ 1: Membership — The membership of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting shall consist of all those individuals who are members of one of the constituent Monthly Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
§ 2: Quarterly and Monthly Meetings — The Quarterly and Monthly Meetings are independent religious bodies currently or hereafter recognized as constituent Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
- Article IV
Governance, Officers, Committees and Employees§ 1: Governance — Philadelphia Yearly Meeting shall continue to be governed according to the principles and practices of the Religious Society of Friends as they now exist, and as they may evolve in the future.
§ 2: Officers — The officers of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting shall be a Presiding Clerk, a Clerk of Interim Meeting, Recording Clerks, a Treasurer, and such other Clerks as Philadelphia Yearly Meeting may appoint as officers.
§ 3: Committees and Employees — Philadelphia Yearly Meeting may appoint committees, and hire employees, to carry on its work. The committees and employees of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting shall serve with the powers and the limitations prescribed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
- Note: The following is the one remaining section requiring action by YM in session.
Article V
Liability Protection and Indemnification§ 1: Participating Members — The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by persons hereinafter known as Participating Members defined as all members who attend Yearly Meeting sessions, or are members of Interim Meeting, or of any Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Committee or Working Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
§ 2: Liability Protection — Participating Members shall not be personally liable, as such, for monetary damages for any action taken unless: (1) the Participating Member has breached or failed to perform the duties of his or her office under Subchapter B, Chapter 57, of the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988, as amended; and (2) the breach or failure to perform constitutes self-dealing, willful misconduct or recklessness; provided, however, that the foregoing limitation of liability shall not apply to (a) the responsibility or liability of a Participating Member pursuant to any criminal statute; or (b) the liability of a Participating Member for the payment of taxes pursuant to Federal, State or local law.
§ 3: Indemnification — All members of the Interim Meeting, Standing Committees or any other Committee or Working Group that is part of the structure of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, its employees and persons acting as officers of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting shall be entitled to the full benefit of the indemnification provisions of the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988, including, but not limited to, sections 5741 and 5742 of 15 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 4: Repeal — No amendment or repeal of the provisions of this Article shall be given adverse effect with respect to any person who would have been entitled to benefits hereunder prior to the amendment or repeal without reasonable prior written notice to such person, and no such amendment or repeal shall be given adverse effect with respect to the conduct of any such person occurring prior to the approval of the amendment or repeal.
- Article VI
AmendmentsPhiladelphia Yearly Meeting in annual or called session may alter or amend these Bylaws, except as limited by law or by the Articles of Incorporation, at any time provided that written notice of the substance of the proposed action and of the meeting at which the action may be taken shall be given to the Clerks of the Monthly Meetings at least 120 days in advance of that meeting.
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