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 Art.
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The Hunting Club, started up in
1888, is a private association, with seat at Bologna, reserved to
conventions, entertainments, cultural shows and general business.
It does not take on political character, in the Club rooms meetings
having this aim are forbidden.
The Club premises and the
guestrooms are open to all Members in the respect of the Regulations
and of the particular rules of the governing bodies. Also the
relatives and Guests of the Members can enter the Guestrooms in
accordance with the terms fixed in the Regulations.
Art. 2
The Association life is
indefinite. Its possible dissolution is ruled by art. 24.
Art. 3
The partnership shares and the
membership fees shall be fixed, year after year, by the ordinary
general Members meeting during budget, that is, by the extraordinary
Meeting convened at the right time.
The Board establishes times and
terms of the deposits. Each Member has towards the Club a one-year
engagement and it shall be considered renewed year after year if no
notice is given six months before its expiration.
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Art. 4
The Club Members differ for:
worthy, real, not domiciled.
Worthy can be the real Members by the fiftieth year of consecutive
Club membership. They are exempted from the payment of the partnership
shares.
Real are the Members domiciled in the province of Bologna. Not
domiciled are the Members having residence out of the province of
Bologna; they are not eligible to partnership offices.
For the not domiciled Members the share amount is reduced by half.
Upon request to the Board, the Member can invite to frequent the Club
seat, even not domiciled, people staying in Bologna for a short
period.
Art. 5
An ex-Member wishing to belong
again to the Club shall be subject to a new voting as well as to the
payment of a membership fee reduced by half. According to art. 24 the
aggregation of the deposited year’s payments will be allowed.
Art. 6
Association bodies are the
following:
the general Meeting,
the Chairman,
the Board,
the Board of the Probiviri
the Board of the Auditors.
Art. 7
The general Meeting, meeting of
all Members, can be ordinary and extraordinary.
Art. 8
The ordinary general Meeting
must be convened by the Chairman, at least once a year, within the
month of March.
It has the following duties:
- it discusses and approves the
final balance and the budget;
- it fixes the amount of the
membership fee and of the annual fees;
- it elects the Chairman, the
Board, the Board of Probiviri and that of the Auditors.
The elections shall be effected
through a secret voting with voting papers. Possible candidate lists,
signed at least by two Members, shall be deposited by the secretary
office at least forty-eight hours before the meeting and they shall be
posted up.
The voting papers shall be
handwritten. In the voting papers the Chairman, six councillors, three
Probiviri and two Auditors shall be nominated by name.
The votes reported by a Member
for the Chairman post, but not enough for the election, shall be
reckoned for the election to Councillor.
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Art. 9
The extraordinary general
Meeting can be convened by the Board, that is, on justified request
addressed to the Chairman and signed at least by one sixth of the
Members.
In this last case, the Meeting
shall be convened within twenty days after the request by the
secretary office.
It decides:
- on the alterations to the
Regulations;
- on the Club dissolution;
- on any subject Board and
Members can produce.
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Art. 10
The ordinary and extraordinary
Meeting Agenda shall be presented by the Board even if the Meeting has
been convened on request of one sixth of the Members (art. 9) and it
must be posted for ten days in the Club Rooms before the Meeting can
take place.
The Agenda, together with the
summoning notice for the Meeting, must be sent to all Members at least
ten days before its fixed date.
The ordinary and extraordinary
Meeting is legitimately formed in first convocation with at least one
third of the Members present and, in second convocation, at least one
hour after the previous one, without considering the number of present
Members, it being understood that the majority fixed according to
art.23 and 24 is held.
The Meeting decides, except for
the elections to partnership posts (art. 8), with simply majority and
with evident count.
The vote is personally
expressed by the Member.
Proxies are not admitted.
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Art. 11
The Chairman is directly
elected by the General Meeting of the Members and he stays in office
for two years.
He can be elected again.
He is at the head of the
Association and has its legal representation.
He convenes and chairs the
Board Meetings.
He convenes and chairs the
ordinary and extraordinary general Meeting. He can delegate the
vice-Chairman or a Councillor to replace him during particular
circumstances.
In urgent cases, if there is no
time necessary to convene the Board, the Chairman can take decisions,
under his own responsibility, as he thinks proper, giving notice to
the Board as soon as possible.
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Art. 12
The Board is composed of seven
Members who stay in office for two years and who can be elected again.
Should a Councillor, for any reason, retire, a candidate who had got
by last voting the majority of the votes, replaces him.
The same occurs for other membership posts, except for the post of
Chairman.
The Board chooses among its Members a vice-Chairman, a Secretary, a
Treasurer.
The Board, being charged with the moral and administrative Club
management, decides on all subjects that do not request the Meeting
vote.
The Board is convened by the Chairman each time he thinks it right.
The convocation can be effected on justified request and signed at
least by three Councillors.
In order that the Board resolutions are valid, it is necessary the
intervention of three Councillors apart from the one of the Chairman
or his substitute. The resolutions are made with the majority of the
votes of the presents.
In case of equality of votes, the Chairman’s vote is
predominant.
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Art. 13
In particular, the Board:
- organizes the final balance and the budget to be subject to the
Meeting approval;
- controls the utilization of the partnership property;
- proposes the Meeting the possible Statute alterations:
- arranges the internal Regulations,
- proposes the Meeting the amount of the membership fees;
- recruits and discharges employees, by regulating conditions;
- can assign special commissions;
- can invite to particular social shows civil, political and military
Authorities, as well as cultural celebrities;
- decides and carries out disciplinary measures according to art. 22.
The Board has the faculty to let other Members take part to its
activities.
Art. 14
The vice-Chairman assists and
helps the Chairman by the exertion of his mandate. He replaces him for
all practical purposes in case of impediment.
Art. 15
The Secretary keeps the Members
list, the register of shareholders, the files, the correspondence and
has delivery for all documents concerning the Association; he fills in
the acts and the minutes of Meetings and conventions of the Board;
He provides admission
communications as well as circulars addressed to the Members and, for
the part up to him, he lets the decisions of the Board apply.
Art. 16
The Treasurer is responsible
before the Board for the economical-financial management.
He applies the administrative
and economical decisions of the Board.
Art. 17
The Board of the Probiviri is
composed of three members, elected by the general Member Meeting. The
Probiviri stay in office for two years and can be elected again.
The Board of the Probiviri,
that during its first meeting shall choose inside its bosom the
Chairman, is charged with the following functions:
- to resolve problems among
Members, and also between Board and Members, concerning social life;
- to decide in appeal about the
disputes according to art. 22.
Art. 18
The Board of Auditors is
composed of two Members staying in office for two years and they can
be elected again.
It controls the legitimacy of the Club administrative and accounting
positions by doing accounting controls of which it shall take the
minutes in the right register.
It expresses its opinion with written report on the final balance.
This report shall be read during the ordinary general Meeting.
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Art. 19
The proposals for the admission
of new Members shall be written on suitable printed form and signed by
two Members-proposers.
The proposals shall be equipped
with suitable information on the candidate. These proposals, after a
first examination of the Board, shall be kept at disposal of the
Members by the secretary office. The Members shall be informed thereof
through notice put up in the Club rooms.
They shall have ten days, after
examining the single names, to draw up confidentially possible
comments to the Chairman. After this period, the proposals examined by
the Board shall be put up in the Club rooms and kept there for at
least ten days before the day fixed for the voting.
The Board shall communicate
through letter sent in time to all Members the names of the candidates
as well as the day fixed for the voting that shall take place in the
registered office from twelve to midnight.
The admission of the new
Members shall occur through secret voting.
The voting shall be executed
through stamped cards with printed names of the candidates and of
their corresponding proposers and near each name there will be a blank
box.
Each voter shall sign on proper
register by the collection of the card and its envelope.
The voter shall express his
vote in favour with yes and his opposing vote with no, that shall be
marked in the proper blank box near the candidate’s name and
then he shall put the card into the ballot box under closed cover.
At the beginning of the voting
the ballot box shall be sealed in front of two scruteeners elected by
the Board.
The legal number for the voting
validity is at least of fifty voters.
Failing this number, the voting
shall be done again with the same procedures simply through new
notice.
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Art. 20
The count of votes shall be
effected in public just after the two scrutineers shall have closed
the voting.
An opposing vote annuls four in
favour.
In case of equality, the
candidate is admitted.
By the end of the count the
cards shall be eliminated.
The minutes concerning the
voting shall be signed by the two scrutineers.
The not-admitted candidate can
be proposed again only two years after the voting.
Art. 21
The occurred admission of the
new Members shall be notified through notice to be posted up in the
Club rooms.
Each Member shall receive an
admission letter with enclosed copy of the Statute and of the
Regulations.
Art. 22
If a Member is charged with
disgraceful or immoral actions, that is, breach of proprieties laws
done in the Club rooms and also outside, as well as important
infringements of the Statutory rules and in particular of the payment
commitment to the Club for the bonds, the Board, upon objection of the
charge to the interested party and hearing of the same or of his
delegate, can decide about his suspension and, in the most severe
cases, his expulsion.
Against the Board decision,
that shall be promptly transmitted to the interested party, this one
can apply to the Board of the Probiviri within thirty days, and this
Board shall decide within maximum ninety days.
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Art. 23
The requests to change this
Statute, as well by the Members and by the Board, shall be subject to
the extraordinary Meeting that shall decide at least with twenty-five
per cent of the Members present and with the majority of two-thirds of
the participants.
By starting with the convocation, the proposals for changes shall be
reported in full.
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Art. 24
The dissolution of the
Association, on proposal of the Board, that is, at least of one-sixth
of the Members, is decided by the extraordinary general Meeting if
necessary convened and with the participation of the Members majority
and of the vote in favour of the dissolution of two-third of the
participants.
The Meeting provides for the
election of the liquidator/s to be chosen also among non-Members, upon
definition of their number.
Other possible remaining
activities shall be distributed among the Members in proportion with
the number of the annual membership fees paid by the same.
The possible remaining
liabilities shall be equally charged to each Member.
Art. 25
The regulations of this Statute
are binding for all Members, meaning they accept them by their
admission to this Association.
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