ISMS Bylaws
CHAPTER VI. DUTIES OF OFFICERS
Section 1. The President. The president of the Illinois State Medical Society shall lead the Society in all its functions. He shall deliver an annual address at such time as may be arranged, and perform other duties as custom and parliamentary usage may require. He shall also appoint such task forces as may be needed by the Society.
Section 2. The President-Elect. The president-elect shall attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee, shall study the relationship between the chairman of the Board and the president and shall study the responsibilities and duties of the executive vice president, chairman of the Board and president so that when his term as president commences, he will have an understanding of his duties and responsibilities.
Section 3. The Vice-President. The vice-president shall act for and perform such duties for the president as he shall direct. The vice-president shall, when so acting, implement and advance the programs and policies of the president.
In the event of the president’s death, resignation or removal from office, the vice-president shall succeed to the presidency.
In the event of a vacancy in the office of the vice- president, the Board of Trustees shall fill the vacancy by appointment to complete the unexpired term.
Section 4. Successor to President-Elect. In the case of death, resignation, or removal from office of the president-elect, the office shall be filled by the House of Delegates at the next annual convention by election at a time recommended by the Reference Committee on Rules and Order of Business.
Section 5. The Speaker. The speaker, who shall be versed in parliamentary procedure, shall preside at the meetings of the House of Delegates and shall perform such duties as custom and parliamentary usage require. The speaker shall appoint all committees of the House of Delegates, and seek the advice of officers and trustees.
Section 6. The Vice-Speaker. The vice-speaker shall preside for the speaker in the latter’s absence or at his request. In case of death or resignation of the speaker, the vice-speaker shall serve during the unexpired term.
Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer. In addition to the rights and duties ordinarily devolving on the secretary of a corporation by law, custom, or parliamentary usage, and those granted or imposed in other provisions of the Constitution and these Bylaws, the secretary-treasurer shall be the official custodian of all securities and the income therefrom owned by the Society, subject to the direction and disposition of the Board of Trustees. He shall be a member of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees may select a bank or trust company to act as custodian in the place of the secretary-treasurer, of all or any part of such securities and to act as agent of the Society in collecting the income therefrom.
He shall perform such other duties as may be directed by the House of Delegates or by the Board of Trustees.
In the event of a vacancy in the office of the secretary-treasurer, the Board of Trustees shall fill the vacancy until the next annual election.
Section 8. Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the American Medical Association. Members of the Illinois State Medical Society’s delegation to the American Medical Association are officers of this society and, as such, share jointly with the Board of Trustees the responsibility for carrying out policies established by the ISMS House of Delegates as they pertain to the AMA activities.
They shall have the privilege of the floor in the ISMS House of Delegates.
Members of the delegation are responsible for participating actively in the House of Delegates of ISMS and the AMA to the extent allowed under the bylaws of each organization. They are responsible for submitting to the AMA appropriate resolutions, and they are obliged to seek passage of these resolutions in the AMA House of Delegates until such time as circumstances and/or additional facts make continued effort impractical or impossible.
