NYSSCPA
Board of Directors Standing Rules As Approved by the
Board of Directors April 21, 2004
SR-1. Establishment of selections subcommittee—Each
year, on or before August 1, the Board shall establish
a selections subcommittee composed of the President-Elect,
who will serve as the subcommittee chair, plus four
Board members to be appointed by the President. Two
of the appointees are to be at-large directors and
two are to be chapter representatives.
SR-2. Selection of Board-designated members
of the nominating committee—Pursuant
to Bylaws Article IX, paragraph 1, the Board is to
designate two of its members to serve on the nominating
committee each year. This standing rule sets forth
the procedure to be used by the Board in complying
with this provision of the Bylaws.
a. The selections subcommittee of
the Board shall propose the names of four or more
Board members for formal designation by the Board.
b. The subcommittee shall present its recommendation
at a meeting of the full Board no later than November
1.
c. The Board shall receive the report of the selections
subcommittee and, during the discussion of the report,
the President shall solicit additional names from
the Board. A secret ballot shall be held of the Board
members with each director permitted to cast two votes;
however, each director may cast no more than one vote
for any candidate. The two Directors receiving the
most votes shall be the Board-designated nominating
committee members. In the event one or more of the
persons so selected to serve on the nominating committee
later withdraws from such service, the election results
shall be redetermined, eliminating the name(s) of
the withdrawing member(s).
SR-3. Recommendation of individuals to serve
as elected members to AICPA Council from New York—Each
year, the AICPA requests recommendations from the
NYSSCPA of AICPA members to serve three-year terms
as elected members of AICPA Council. In addition,
the NYSSCPA is granted one representative on AICPA
Council to serve for one year. This standing rule
sets out the procedure to be followed in recommending
individuals to serve as elected members of AICPA Council
and in designating the NYSSCPA representative to Council.
a. The person nominated each January to serve
as NYSSCPA president-elect shall automatically
be proposed to serve a three-year term on Council;
provided, however, that such nomination for president-elect
shall be subject to the condition that if such
nominee is defeated in an election for president-elect,
or later is removed or otherwise vacates the office
of NYSSCPA President-elect, NYSSCPA President,
or NYSSCPA director, he or she shall be deemed
to have submitted his or her resignation from
AICPA Council. The nominee for President-elect
shall sign an acknowledgement of this automatic
resignation provision as a condition of accepting
the nomination for AICPA Council. In the event
the nominee for president-elect is not a member
of the AICPA and chooses not to join the AICPA,
or chooses not to accept the NYSSCPA Board’s
nomination to be proposed for service on AICPA
Council, or refuses to sign such acknowledgement,
he or she shall not be nominated for Council and
the selections subcommittee shall propose one
or more candidates to fill the resulting vacancy.
b. Each candidate proposed by the NYSSCPA Board
for service on Council must meet the following
criteria, unless being proposed by virtue of being
the nominee for NYSSCPA President-elect:
1.) Be a member of the NYSSCPA
2.) Be a member of the AICPA
3.) Submit a resume to the Board selections subcommittee
4.) Submit to the Board selections subcommittee
an answer to the following question: What is it
that I would bring to Council?
5.) Live in or work in the states of New York,
New Jersey, or Connecticut
6.) Have been active in the NYSSCPA either at
the chapter level or with a statewide committee
or both
7.) Not be a current member of the NYSSCPA Board
of Directors, unless the candidate is in his or
her final year of service.
Any candidate for consideration to serve on Council
who is a member of the NYSSCPA Board of Directors
must recuse him- or herself from the related Board
discussion and vote.
c. Two weeks before the last regularly
scheduled Board meeting in the calendar year, the
selections subcommittee of the Board, defined in SR-1,
shall propose to the full Board the names of individuals
to fill the vacancies occurring on AICPA Council in
the ensuing year. The subcommittee report shall include
three more candidates than the number of positions
to be filled.
d. The Board shall receive the report of the selections
subcommittee; and during the ensuing discussion, the
President shall solicit additional names from the
Board. A secret ballot shall be held of the Board
members with each director permitted to cast a number
of votes equal to the number of Council vacancies
sought to be filled; however, each director may cast
no more than one vote for any candidate. For however
many “elected” Council member vacancies
remain after the position reserved to the president-elect
designee, the individuals receiving the most votes
shall be recommended for such “elected”
Council positions.
The candidate receiving the next highest number of
votes shall serve as the NYSSCPA representative to
the AICPA Council when the term of the then current
NYSSCPA representative ends, except as noted below.
In the event one or more of the persons so selected
to serve on the AICPA Council withdraws from consideration
for Council or is later nominated for Society president-elect,
the election results shall be redetermined, eliminating
the name(s) of the president-elect candidate or withdrawing
member(s).
SR-4. Roles of the Vice Presidents—The
Vice Presidents shall serve in the following capacities,
with the assignment to be made by the President:
The chapter vice presidents shall be assigned responsibilities
for chapters in a manner that assures diversity based
on location, size, and longevity.
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