THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA VIETNAMESE SENIOR CITIZEN ASSOCIATION

BY-LAWS 

CHAPTER I

Article I - NAME - SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES - MAN OFFICE,

Paragraph 1. The organization shall be known as The Northern Virginia Vietnamese Senior Citizen Association, the abbreviation of which is NOVASCA.

Paragraph 2. The NOVASCA's scope of activities may reach all counties in Northern Virginia where Vietnamese-Americans are residing.

Paragraph 3. The NOVASCA shall be incorporated and registered with the Commonwealth of Virginia, and its main office shall be maintained in the County where the current President resides.

Article II - POLICY - PURPOSES

Paragraph 4. The NOVASCA is a non-profit organization.

Paragraph 5. The purpose of the NOVASCA is to affiliate all Vietnamese-American senior citizens in Northern Virginia who need to be supported financially, materially, culturally, socially, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

A special effort of the corporation is to provide these senior citizens with a place to meet regularly each week, means of transportation to and from home, lunches, cultural activities, English language classes, citizenship classes, Tai Chi classes, filed-trips and social activities.

CHAPTER II

Article III - OPERATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Paragraph 6. The NOVASCA is comprised of the following components:

6. 1. Board of Directors

6.2. President/Vice President

6.3. Executive Committee

6.4. The Advisory Board

Paragraph 7. The Board of Directors consists of directors elected/appointed by members of the association for terms of four years, beginning with their first general election. They may succeed themselves twice; but after any three consecutive terms, a director shall be ineligible for re-election until after the lapse of one year.

Paragraph 8. The Board of Directors shall meet in plenary assembly/session to elect the President of the NOVASCA.

Paragraph 9. The President shall form an Executive Committee, appoint the Vice President , the Secretary, Treasurer and other officials in the Executive Committee. A directory of these executive officials shall be distributed to the members of the NOVASCA.

Paragraph 10. The President's term of office is four years.

Paragraph 11. The Advisory Board consists of no more than fifteen experts who shall serve as consultants to the President for various technical matters.

Article IV - FUNCTIONS AND POWERS

Paragraph 14. The Board of Directors shall determine policy lines, courses of action and goals to be pursued by the NOVASCA.

Paragraph 15. The Board of Directors shall continuously oversee the work of the Executive Committee and shall see to it that the business of the NOVASCA be faithfully executed.

Paragraph 16. The President shall:

16. 1. Chair all meetings of the NOVASCA;

16.2. Sign and execute all correspondence;

16.3. Have the general charge of the association's operations within the existing laws??? and regulations;

16.4. Perform such functions as assigned to him through policies and goals determined by the Board of Directors.

Paragraph 17. The Vice President shall exercise the authority of the President on the latter's request, or in the case of the President's resignation or physical/mental incapacity. This temporary situation shall not exceed ninety days.

Paragraph 18. The Executive Committee shall perform such tasks/duties as the President may request or assign.

Paragraph 19. The Executive Committee shall establish its agenda of activities and submit to the President for its approval, and ensure good execution of such agenda as approved.

Paragraph 20. The Secretary shall be accountable to the President for the following:

20. 1. Smooth operation of the NOVASCA;

20.2. Chairmanship of the Executive Committee's Meetings in the absence of both the President and Vice-President;

20.3. Convocation of all Executive Committee's meetings;

20.4. Good management of the NOVASCA's administrative matters including the recording of periodic meetings' minutes for files and distribution, if need be.

Paragraph 21. The Treasurer shall be responsible for the NOVASCA's accounts and shall make financial reports on the NOVASCA's accounts.

Paragraph 22. All monies due or belonging to the NOVASCA shall be deposited in the bank under the name of the NOVASCA. All disbursements shall be made with corporate checks signed by the Treasurer for any amount of up to fifty dollars, and signed by both the President and the Treasurer for any amount exceeding fifty dollars.

Paragraph 23. All Directors, the President, Vice-President, the Secretary and the Treasurer shall attend general sessions - plenary and extraordinary. With regard to directors not attending for justifiable reasons, they must send the President's office a "proxy" document stating their respective position/opinion on the question(s) to be discussed or decided upon at the session(s) they would default.

Article V. MEMBERSHIP

Paragraph 24. Membership in NOVASCA shall be open to any senior persons interested to join the association, and any sympathizers agreeing with or approving of the NOVASCA's goals and objectives.

Paragraph 25. Admission requirements include an application and annual dues.

Article VI - CANDIDATURE FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Paragraph 26. Every legal member of the NOVASCA is entitled to seek election or re-election or nomination for the Office of the President of NOVASCA.

CHAPTER III

Article VIII - DISSOLUTION

Paragraph 27. The NOVASCA may be dissolved in accordance with legal proceeding in a plenary session convened by either the President or the Board of Directors when a resolution for dissolution is adopted by a three-fourth (3/4) majority vote.

Paragraph 28. In case of dissolution, NOVASCA's properties and assets shall after payment of all debts and obligations, be given to a charitable organization to be designated by a vote of the Board of Directors.

Paragraph 29. A liquidation committee shall be appointed by the Board of Directors to carry out liquidation proceedings.

Article IX - AMENDMENT

Paragraph 30. This by-laws can be amended, except provisions of Chapter 1. Any proposed amendment to the by-laws shall be received and presented by the Executive Committee to the General Assembly for consideration, and shall not be adopted unless it is approved by a two-third (2/3) vote of delegates present and voting.

Paragraph 31. This by-laws contains three (3) chapters, nine (9) articles and thirty one (31) paragraphs that have been approved for adoption and will be signed by the NOVASCA's President to be effective on October 13^th, 2001.

Prepared in Vienna, Virginia, the 13^th of October, 2001.

President

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