Constitution
Article I. Name
Article II. Purpose
Article III. Membership
Article IV. Organization
Article V. Duties of the Officers
Article VI. Publications
Article VII. Associate Organizations
Article VIII. Amendments
Article IX. Dissolution of the Society
The Renaissance Society of America
Revised as of March 24th, 2006
San Francisco Annual Meeting
ARTICLE III. Membership.
Section 1.
The Society shall consist of individuals and institutions that have paid current dues to the Treasurer of the Society. Categories of individual membership shall be regular, retired, student, dual, patron, life members. Individual members shall be considered full members with voting privileges whether they be regular, retired, student, patron, or benefactor/life members. Each member of a dual membership may have one vote.
Provision for non-dues-paying members (honorary, corresponding, etc.) may be made in amendments to this Constitution, but they shall not be voting members.
Membership shall be regarded as beginning with the January 1 preceding admission. Any member in default of payment of dues after January 1 shall be considered delinquent. A delinquent member shall be dropped from the membership. Reinstatement may be effected by payment of current dues plus dues for any period in which member failed to pay dues but nonetheless received publications. Changes in these provisions may be made by the Council. Annual dues of individual and institutional members as at present fixed may be changed by action of the Executive Board.
Section 2.FOUNDERS. Those members who signified their intention of joining the Society, and paid their dues, before 1 March 1954, shall be known as FOUNDERS.
Section 3.CHARTER MEMBERS. Those members who joined the Society within the first calendar year, i.e., before 1 January 1955, or who paid dues from the first year, shall be known as CHARTER MEMBERS.
Section 4.No special rights or privileges shall derive from the status or designation of FOUNDER, or that of CHARTER MEMBER.
Section 5.Each dues-paying member of the Society shall be entitled to receive one annual subscription to any regular periodical publication issued by the Society. Occasional and special publications which may be issued from time to time will be distributed as the Executive Board determines. A new member shall receive periodical publications by the calendar year in which s/he became a member.