ISMS Bylaws
CHAPTER VIII. DISTRICT COMMITTEES
Each trustee district which is composed of more than one county, shall have an Ethical Relations Committee, a Peer Review Committee, and such other committees as required to provide to each component society those services the component society may not be able to provide for itself. District committees shall function only at the request of a component society within the district; except that district committees may be assigned to act when the Ethical Relations or Peer Review Committees of the component society fail to act as set forth in Chapters XI and XII of these bylaws.
Complaints initially received by district committees shall be referred immediately to component society for action.
District committees shall be governed by the procedural rules and regulations governing the counterpart state society committee or by these Bylaws.
Reports of findings and recommendations of these district committees shall be made to the component society that requested action.
The district trustee shall include a summary of the activities of each of these committees and the findings in general, in his annual report to the House of Delegates.
The committee members shall be elected at a meeting of the delegates of the district called by the trustee of the district, before or during the annual convention of the Illinois State Medical Society. Physicians elected to district committees shall serve a three year term of office. Chairmen of the committees shall be designated by the trustee of the district, and the trustee shall be an ex officio member of each committee.
