Organs
General Assembly
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Council
Composition
Responsibilities
Appointment of
a Vice-President
Election
Nationality
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— or the principal Scientific Academy of that country or its National Research Council,
— or failing these and provisionally, any other Institution or Association of institutions whether
governmental or non-governmental concerned with Photogrammetry.
The admission of Members shall be governed by the rules laid down in the Statutes and
Bye-Laws.
Organization and Administration
The Organs for the direction and management of the Society shall be as follows:
— The General Assembly,
— The Council,
— The Congress.
The General Assembly shall consist of the Delegates appointed by the Members to represent
them, each Member being represented by one Delegate.
Prior to every Congress and prior to every extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly each
Member shall appoint one Delegate to represent it at the General Assembly. Such appoint-
ments shall have no permanency and shall be valid only for the duration of the Congress or of
the extraordinary meeting.
No member of Council shall be appointed as a Delegate.
Only Delegates, Members of Council, Members of the Financial Commission, Honorary Mem-
bers of the Society, and two Advisers per Delegate shall have the right to attend the meeting
of the General Assembly.
The General Assembly shall be the supreme authority of the Society for all administrative and
financial decisions. It shall determine the general policy of the Society.
The President of the Society shall communicate to Congress in plenary session the decisions
of the General Assembly taken at ordinary meetings and to the Members in writing the decisions
taken at extraordinary meetings.
The Council shall consist of six members, viz:
— The President of the Society,
— The Director of the Congress,
— Two Vice-Presidents of the Society,
— The Secretary General,
The Treasurer.
They shall be chosen in accordance with the rules therefor in the Statutes and Bye-Laws by
the General Assembly meeting at the time of a Congress. They shall serve from the termination
of the Congress at which they are appointed until the termination of the Congress next ensuing.
The Council shall conduct the affairs of the Society in the interval between meetings of the
General Assembly in accordance with the Statutes and Bye-Laws and with the Decisions and
Directives of the General Assembly and of Congress.
The Council shall be answerable before the General Assembly for its management of affairs.
The Council shall attend in an advisory capacity all meetings of the General Assembly.
The Council shall assist the President to coordinate and watch over the activities of the Tech-
nical Commissions and shall maintain the Society in a state of continual scientific activity.
In order to assist continuity the outgoing President shall be appointed one of the incoming
Vice-Presidents as of right without election. Should he decline the office it shall be offered
successively in the following order to
the outgoing Secretary General,
the outgoing Vice- Presidents in turn, Past Presidents excepted,
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the outgoing Treasurer,
the outgoing Director of the Congress.
Should all these decline the office it shall be filled by election.
All other members of Council shall be elected by the General Assembly.
A Vice-President who has been appointed to that office without election and the Director of
the Congress may be of any nationality. Of the remaining members of the Council none shall
be of the same nationality as any other one of themselves.
No person shall hold the office of President for two consecutive terms of office. No person
who has held the offices of President and Vice-President consecutively in that order shall be