Automatic Age

Issue: 1926 October

THE AUTOM ATIC AGE
Vol. 2
CH ICAGO, O C TO B ER , 1926
________________ No. 3
N A T IO N A L V E N D IN G M A C H IN E
OPERATORS A SSO C IA T IO N
C O N S T IT U T IO N AN D L A W S
Constitution— Article I
Sec. 1. N A M E : This organiza­
tion shall be hailed and known as the
n a t io n a l
v e n d in g
m a c h in e
O P E R A T O R S A SSO C IA T IO N .
Sec. 2. O B JE C T S: The objects
o f this organization are
(a) To bring together persons en­
gaged or interested in the operation
o f coin controlled devices as members
o f this association and its subsidiar­
ies and branches.
(b)
T o gather information o f
value to the membership.
(c) T o promulgate such inform a­
tion among the membership.
(d) To investigate and make re­
port o f all matters o f interest fo r
and to the membership.
(e) To promote the best possible
understanding among the member­
ship.
(f)
To take such legal or other
steps as may be necessary or best
suited to protect such members from
unjust or unlawful discrmination
against them or encroachment on
their business by any person or body
politic or corporate.
(g ) T o promote the spirit o f fair,
open, above board treatment between
the membership and between the
members and those with whom they
deal.
(h )) T o conduct educational cam­
paigns in order to keep constantly
before the membership the desirabil­
ity and necessity fo r dispensing 1 in
their machines clean, wholesome and
sanitary products and to keep their
machines in a clean, wholesome and
sanitary condition.
(i)
T o grant charters to subsid­
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iaries, bodies and branches thruout
the United States.
(j)
T o operate such subsidiaries
and branches in conjunction with and
under this association upon and un­
der such rules and regulations as are
hereby or may be hereafter adopted
by this association conformable tt»
law.
(k)
T o specify, limit and enum­
erate the obligations o f this associa­
tion to such subsidiaries and branches
and the responsibility o f the associa­
tion fo r obligations incurred by such
subsidiaries or branches or anyone o f
them.
(1
To arrange and make provi­
sion fo r the holding o f State and Na­
tional Conventions o f its subsidiaries
and branches
and the
members
thereof.
A R T IC L E II
Members
Sec. 1. The members o f this or­
ganization shall consist o f only such
persons, firms or corporations, who
are engaged in the operation o f coin
controlled devices as a business or,
persons, firms or corporations inter­
ested in the operation o f coin con­
trolled devices as a business, who
have been elected as delegates to this
body from any subsidiary or branch
operating under a charter granted by
this association to it as hereinafter
set forth.
Sec. 2. Each subsidiary or branch
to whom a charter is granted shall
have the right to elect from among
their number a delegate to this body
fo r each fifteen members o f such sub­
sidiary or branch o f any multiple or
fraction or multiple thereof.
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A R T IC L E III
Sec. 1. O F F IC E R S. The officers
o f this organization shall consist of
a President, First Vice President,
Second Vice President, Third V ice­
President, R ecording Secretary, F i­
nancial Secretary and Treasurer, who
shall be and shall constitute the
Board o f Directors consisting of
seven.
Sec. 2. The terms o f office o f all
directors shall expire at the first
regular meeting o f the Board o f Di­
rectors after the annual meeting.
The annual meeting shall be desig­
nated in the by-laws o f this associa­
tion. The officers shall be elected by
a ballot and their election as such
officers shall also constitute their
election as director and they shall
hold their respective offices fo r one
year from and after their installation
in dffice or until their respective suc­
cessors are duly elected and qualified.
Sec. 3. In case a vacancy arises
in any official position, the same shall
be filled by the m ajority vote o f the
remaining directors at a regular
meeting o f such Board as at a spe­
cial meeting called fo r that purpose,
which special meeting may be called
by the President. A ny person or
persons so elected shall hold such
office until the next installation o f
officers or until his or their succes­
sors shall be duly elected and quali­
fied.
Sec. 4. Directors shall constitute
the executive committee and no per­
son shall be an officer without being
a director and vice versa.
A R T IC L E IV
Convention
Sec. 1. The annual meeting shall
be and hereby is denominated as a
convention and this association shall
by by-law designate the manner and
method o f calling and arranging and
providing fo r the first annual conven­
tion and thereafter each successive
convention may and shall by a ma­
jority vote determine the place and
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the exact time when the succeeding
convention shall be held.
A R T IC L E V
Powers o f the Association
Sec. 1. This association shall have
original and appellate jurisdiction in
all matters pertaining to the general
welfare o f this association. It may
entertain and
determine
charges
against any o f its members, or mem­
bers o f associate or subordinate or
branch bodies, which may be char­
tered to operate, by this association
and which may be brought to it on
appeals from such associate, subordi­
nate or branch bodies or from the
action o f any state convention and
the decision o f this association shall
be final. It shall issue and may re­
voke charters to associate, subordi­
nate or branch bodies in any state in
the union. It shall have the power
to enact laws fo r its own government
and the government o f the State
conventions and other subordinate,
associate or branch bodies and fo r
the control and management o f the
business o f this association generally,
and to provide penalties fo r the vio­
lation thereof. It shall have power
to prescribe the rights, privileges,
and duties and responsibilities o f it­
self, its state conventions and its
other subordinate, associate or branch
bodies and the membership o f this
association and to finally determine
the same. It shall prepare and pub­
lish its constitution and by-laws. It
shall have power to provide fo r the
levy o f assessments, premiums dues
and taxes on these members neces­
sary to pay and defray all the claims
and expenses o f management. It
shall zealously guard the rights o f
the membership branches, subordi­
nate, associate bodies and state con­
ventions against unlawful encroach­
ment thereon and against unlawful
encroachment on the business in
which its membership is engaged in
(which is that o f operating coin con­
trolled devices) on the part o f any
person, firm, corporation, body po­
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