PAINTED
HILLS GENEALOGY SOCIETY
ARTICLE I
NAME and ADDRESS:
A. The name of this organization is Painted Hills Genealogy Society, hereinafter referred to as "PHGS".
B. PHGS is a public charity
non-profit organization.
C. PHGS is founded for
the purpose of educating the general public
about genealogy and providing genealogical facts that help them trace
their historical roots in the multi-county area served by PHGS.
D. The address of PHGS is: 3198 Ridge Road Ext, Freedom PA, 15042
E.
The URL for PHGS's
Internet website
is: https://www.paintedhills.org/
ARTICLE II
PURPOSE
A. PHGS is founded for the purpose of educating the general public about genealogy and providing genealogical facts that help them trace their historical roots in the multi-county area served by PHGS. Specific activities include:
B. The counties originally represented by PHGS are Allegany, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Steuben counties in the state of New York, and McKean and Potter counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As other counties are added, their names will be added to this paragraph.
ARTICLE III
POLICIES
1. No part of the net income or earnings of PHGS shall accrue to the benefit of any individual member or be distributed among its members or officers.
2.
Funds shall be
used exclusively for activities
consistent with the stated purpose of the organization, as determined
by
the President within the provisions of these bylaws.
ARTICLE IV
MEMBERSHIP
1.
All members are
nonvoting members. Individual
membership is
open to all persons
regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
marital
status, disability, sexual orientation, or other areas of human
difference.
2. Membership dues
shall be five dollars
($5.00) per year. Lifetime memberships are available for
seventy-five
dollars ($75.00) and may be paid in three installments of twenty-five
dollars
($25.00), the first $25.00 installment to be received within 30 days of
application for membership. The other 2 installments of $25.00 each
must
be received prior to the end of the first year.
All dues, once received by PHGS, are
non-refundable.
ARTICLE V
FISCAL YEAR
The
Painted Hills
Genealogy Society fiscal
year shall be the calendar year from January 1 to December 31,
inclusive.
ARTICLE VI
OFFICERS/STAFF/ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
A. Officers:
B. Staff:
C.
If an Advisory Board is
deemed useful, members shall be appointed and removed at the sole
discretion of the President.
ARTICLE VII
DUTIES OF OFFICERS/STAFF/ADVISORY BOARD
A. The President shall be chief executive of PHGS and shall perform the following duties:
B. The Vice-President shall assume the duties of the President when the President is absent or unable to fulfill the responsibilities of that office.
C. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all official Society functions, and discharge such other duties as may be assigned by the President.
D. The Treasurer shall receive all monetary dues, donations, or other funds of PHGS, maintain a proper accounting thereof, and disburse such funds as ordered by PHGS.
F. The Surname and Member
Coordinator shall:
H. The Webmaster shall have charge of all databases and information on PHGS's web pages, and will perform the following:
ARTICLE VIII
MEETINGS
A. Meetings will be held as needed via email or other electronic means.
B.
The principal business
of PHGS will be transacted on the Internet at the following URL:
http://www.paintedhills.org
ARTICLE IX
RESPONSIBILITY
A. PHGS, its President, and its members shall assume no responsibility for errors of fact or opinion in contributed material. Errors of fact will be corrected when proof is provided.
B.
PHGS will not
publish otherwise unpublished facts about living individuals such as
birth, marriage, or
state of residency without their permission.
The removal of these facts is the
responsibility
of the contributor.
3.
PHGS is not
responsible for loss of
material due to server crashes or other circumstances beyond the
control
of PHGS.
ARTICLE X
COPYRIGHTS
1. PHGS owns the copyright to all web pages containing Society-compiled information.
2. Member-contributed material copyrights reside solely with the creator and/or the contributor of those materials.
3. Copyright to queries and any other submitted data resides with the submitter. The submission of queries and other data to PHGS implies that PHGS may continue to post the material until PHGS deems it appropriate to remove said material.
4.
Copyright to data
contributed to any special
project resides with the contributor. PHGS, as a non-profit
organization,
shall have permanent use of the data conditional upon the non-profit
nature
of PHGS and will become invalid if PHGS should ever cease
to be non-profit.
ARTICLE XI
DISSOLUTION
Upon dissolution of PHGS, and after paying, or making provisions for the payment, of all liabilities of PHGS, the assets of PHGS shall be disposed of as follows:
1. All monies shall be distributed to the Historical Society of each of PHGS's counties as defined in Article II, paragraph B of these bylaws.
2. All remaining property such as books, records, computers, printers, and office supplies, shall be distributed to all Historical Societies within the Painted Hills area as defined in Article II, paragraph B of the bylaws.
3. No monies or property of
PHGS shall be distributed to
members, officers, or any individual.