CONSTITUTION 



ADOPTED MARCH 6, 1899 



1. The name of this organization shall be the American Society of Landscape 

 Architects. 



2. The objects of this society shall be to promote good fellowship among its members 

 and increase the efficiency of the profession. 



3. The membership shall consist of Fellows, Juniors, and Associates. 



4. Fellows shall be landscape architects or landscape gardeners in good standing. 

 A landscape architect or a landscape gardener in good standing is one who practises the 

 art of arranging land and landscape for use and enjoyment, whose compensation is received 

 directly from his client, and not directly or indirectly from labor, plants, or other material 

 used in fitting land for use, or from persons supplying the same. Fellows retiring from the 

 practice of the profession and not engaging in business may be continued as Fellows by 

 vote of the Society. A Fellow shall be at least thirty years of age and shall have prac- 

 tised the profession for five years. 



5. Juniors shall be students who are preparing to practise the profession; they shall 

 have no vote and shall not be eligible to office. A Junior shall be at least twenty-one 

 years of age, and shall cease to be a Junior ten years after election. 



6. Associates shall be persons who have performed notable service in advancing 

 the interest of the profession; they shall have no vote and shall not be eligible to office. 



7. The officers shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, 

 who with three others shall constitute an Executive Committee. 



8. These officers shall hold office until their successors are elected and have qualified. 



9. Officers and members shall be elected by the ballot of a majority of the Fellows, 

 mailed or handed to the Secretary. 



10. There shall be an annual meeting in the month of January for the election of 

 officers and the transaction of business. 



11. One-third of the Fellows shall constitute a quorum at the annual meeting. 



12. All business shall be reported upon by the Executive Committee before being 

 voted upon by the Society. 



13. Any public expression of opinion intended to represent the collective opinion 

 of the Society must receive a majority vote of all the Fellows by ballot mailed or handed 

 to the Secretary. 



14. Proposed amendments to this Constitution must be submitted in writing by 

 the Secretary to all members at least two months before a regular meeting, and to be 

 adopted must receive the ballots of two-thirds of all the Fellows, said ballots to be mailed 

 or handed to the Secretary at said meeting. 



BY-LAWS 



ARTICLE I 



DUTIES OF officers 



Section i. The President, or in his absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at 

 all meetings of the Society and of the Executive Committee. 



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