[Chapter-delegates] Update on By-Laws revision

[Veni Markovski]

For what is worth, I don't remember that we have used the chapter status 
in Bulgaria in the last 10 years. ISOC.org, at the same time, has used 
many times the fact that there are 80+ chapters around the world.

v.

On 06/26/2013 16:35, Grigori Saghyan wrote:
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> Dear John,
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> On 6/26/2013 9:57 PM, John More wrote:
>> Veni
>>
>> Being a Chapter does not mean that you do not have separate
>> existence.  It means you are affiliated and have certain rights and
>> obligations.
>   If there suddenly were no ISOC, each Chapter would be left to work
> out under their national laws how to proceed.
>
> Chapter have to work under its national law in all cases, in case if
> it is a Chapter and in case if it has not  a Chapter status.
>
>   I note that an Chapter that loses its Chapter status still would
> exist as a legal entity under the laws it was organized under.
>
>   It just could no longer present itself as a Chapter of the Society.
>
> This is risky policy, in that case lot of Chapters will loss their
> Chapter status, in our case we shall loose our Chapter status,
> otherwise nobody will accept, that we are independent NGO which  works
> on National Policy independently.
>> There may be special cases such as ISOC.AM. I would leave it to
>> staff to work out what, if anything, needs to be stated in the

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