Vol. 70, No. 11, November
1997
State Bar Bylaws
Notice of State Bar Bylaw Amendment
Note: The Board of Governors amended its election-related bylaws
at its Sept. 19 meeting. A petition for review of any change in the bylaws
will be entertained by the court if signed by 25 or more active State Bar
members and filed with the clerk of the court within 60 days after publication
of notice of change. Hearings upon such a petition will be pursuant to notice
in such manner as the court directs.
I, Kathleen Grant, the duly elected secretary of the State Bar of Wisconsin,
do hereby certify that resolutions were adopted at the Sept. 19, 1997, Board
of Governors' meeting to amend the State Bar bylaws as follows:
Nomination and election dates for officers, governors
Articles II and III of the State Bar Bylaws are amended to read as follows:
Article II Officers
Section 1. Nominations. The President-Elect, the Secretary and
the Treasurer of the State Bar shall be elected from a list of candidates
nominated in the manner herein prescribed. A committee of five members to
nominate candidates for said offices to be voted on at the next annual election
shall be appointed by the President of the Association with the approval
of the Board of Governors on or before the last day of September in each
year at the first regularly scheduled Board meeting following the
annual convention. Such report shall name two or more candidates nominated
by the committee for the Office of President-Elect, two or more candidates
nominated for the Office of Secretary and two or more candidates nominated
for the Office of Treasurer. Before making its report, the committee shall
solicit from the membership the names of members interested in seeking nomination
to any office scheduled for election. The committee shall make its report
no later than December 15 in each year the first business day in
November. Other persons may be nominated for any of said offices by petition
signed in the case of each candidate by not less than one hundred active
members of the Association, and filed in the Office of the Executive Director
on or before the first business day of February December of the year
of preceding the election, provided that before the filing of such
petition a statement shall be endorsed thereon by the nominee to the effect
that the member consents to nomination for the office designated in the
petition.
Article III Board of Governors
Section 3. Nomination Petitions. Nominations for the Office of
Governor shall be by petition signed in respect of each nominee by not less
than ten persons entitled to vote for such candidate. Blank forms for that
purpose shall be supplied by the Executive Director of the Association on
request. Nomination petitions for candidates to be voted on at the annual
election in any year shall be filed in the office of the Executive Director
not later than the first business day of March January of such year, provided
that before the filing of such petition a statement shall be endorsed thereon
by the nominee to the effect that the nominee consents to nomination for
the office designated in the petition. No nominating petition for governor
shall be filed on behalf of any member practicing in the same county in
which another member is a governor whose term does not expire at the next
annual meeting.
Section 4. Voting List. On the last third Friday of March January
in each year the voting list shall close for the election in that year.
Every active member of the Association in good standing on that date shall
be entitled to vote in the State Bar District in which the member's principal
office for the practice of law is located for officers of the State Bar
and for the governor or governors for such district to be elected that year.
Section 5. Mailing Ballots. On or before the second first Friday
of April February in each year the Executive Director shall prepare and
mail required two ballots to each active member of the State Bar entitled
to vote at the annual election. One form of ballot sent to persons entitled
to vote in each State Bar District shall contain the names of the nominees
for the several offices of the State Bar to be filled at the annual election,
and a separate form of ballot shall contain the names of the nominees for
the Office of Governor from such district. If any such person entitled to
vote in such election fails to receive his or her ballots, or if it appears
that any such ballot has been lost or destroyed, a new ballot shall be furnished
to the person by the Executive Director. The fourth third Friday of April
February in each year shall be the last day for voting in such election
and no ballots received after that date shall be counted.
Kathleen Grant
Secretary
State Bar of Wisconsin
Oct. 6, 1997 |