Past Students Association
Stanes Higher Secondary School
Bye- Laws
Article-1: Membership
A Eligibility for Membership:
The eligibility for membership to the society will be categorized as defined below; all ex students by way of right will be eligible to become members of the society but shall however be restricted by a minimum period of continous study at the school by four years or shall have passed out of the school at the 10th or 12th standards ( 11th standard if studied prior to 1980).
B. Category of Membership
The society shall entertain only one category of members . Life Members.. Every person so qualifying by the eligibility norms of the society as specifically prescribed in Article 1A of the bye laws shall apply for registration of Life Membership of the Society following the rules prescribed by the Executive Committee in doing so.
(1) Persons so applying for membership of the society shall provide proof of study by attaching any one of the following documents with the application:
(i) The copy of transfer certificate duly issued by the school.
(ii) 10th /12th Standard Mark sheet (SSLC Mark sheet if studied before 1980)
(iii) An affidavit filed before a Notary public : In the event of loss or misplacement of the above to that effect.
C. Membership acceptance and voting rights:
(1) Any application duly made in the prescribed form shall be placed before the Executive Committee for scrutiny and shall not be effected unless approved by the Executive Committee. The Secretary shall intimate the new member in writing on the acceptance of the application for membership after due receipt of the membership fee.
(2) The Secretary on such acceptance of a member shall specifically in writing , take an undertaking from such members , after duly handing over a copy of the Memorandum and Bye-Laws of The Society that they will unconditionally abide by the Rules and Regulations of The Society on becoming such members.
(3) Such members whose applications have been accepted and who has paid all dues to the society shall be eligible to one vote at the AGM and such other committees he may be elected/ nominated to by competent authority and relevant provisions of the Bye-Laws of The Society.
(4) No member eligible to vote shall vote by proxy at ant such meeting.
D. Membership norms:
(1) Acceptance of new members to The Society will be suspended 90 days in advance to the date of the AGM following such applications.
(2) A register of members shall be kept at the Registered office of The Society.
(3) If a member changes his postal address / and or E-mail address , he shall notify his new address to the Registered Office of The Society and the entry in the register shall be accordingly changed . but if he /she fails to modify his/her new address the address in the roll of members shall be deemed to be his/her address.
(4) In the event a member has failed to notify the Registered office of The Society of any change in his /her address .The Society shall consider it deemed fit to suspend the sending of notices /information to such members if three consecutive AGM notices have been returned to The Society for want of correct address of the member and may be revived as and when the member furnishes in writing to the Secretary his current address.
(5) When a member of The Society becomes a member by virtue of the office or appointment he holds (as in the case of The Principal who will be an ex-officio member of The Society) , his membership to The Society shall terminate when he ceases to hold that office or appointment.
E. Cessation of Membership:
A member of The Society shall cease to be a member on the happening of any of the following events.
(1) If he dies, resigns, becomes of unsound mind , becomes insolvent or ne convicted of a criminal offence in volving moral turpitude.
(2) If he fails to pay any bona-fide dues to The Society for 3 months after the same