Jain Center of America NY 1984 09 Paryushan

Author(s): Jain Center of America NY
Publisher: USA Jain Center America NY

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CONSTITUTION OF JAIN CENTER OF AMERICA
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ARTICLE I: NAME & OBJECTIVES
Section 1 The name of this non-profit membership corporation shall be Jain Center of America Inc., New York, U.S.A.
Section 2
Objectives:
(a) to promote ideals and teachings of Jainism; (b) to promote principles of pure vegetarianism, non-injury (AHIMSA), and truth (ANEKANTEVADA); (c) To promote understanding of sacred Jain scriptures and teachings of Mahavira; (d) to raise the level of spiritual awareness and humanitarian principles throughout the world, (e) to act towards the achievement of these objectives by establishing, supporting and participating in lectures,
seminars, discussion groups, conferences, exhibitions, tours, exchanges of scholars and establishing liaison with
other institutions, (0) to propagate these objectives through publication of articles, journals, books, pamphlets, letters, and audio
visual material: (g) to establish teaching and research centers, libraries, reading rooms and study circles; (h) to lease or acquire land, buildings and other property for furtherance of ideals and objectives of the Jain Center
of America 0 to establish a house of worship for the Jains residing in New York metropolitan area; ( to establish liaison with Jain community in other parts of the United States as well as in India,
ARTICLE II: MEMBERSHIP
Section 1
(a) Membership will be open to all those who believe in the philosophy of Jain religion.
Section 2
(a) Applications for membership shall be submitted to the Secretary along with full amount of dues applicable thereto.
The Secretary may, at his discretion, approve such an application on a temporary basis pending approval of
the Board of Directors. (b) At every meeting of the Board of Directors, the Secretary shall submit all outstanding membership applications
(temporarily approved or not) for consideration of the Board. (c) The Board of Directors may accept or reject any application for membership. Should any application be re
jected, all prepaid dues shall be immediately refunded.
Section 3
(a) There shall be two classes of membership individual, and (D) family. (b) Members shall be in good standing if they have paid dues for their class for the period indicated, and shall
be eligible for all rights and privileges of their class of membership so long as they maintain good standing
and are not removed from membership in accordance with the procedure set in Section 6 of this Article. (c) Members whose dues are in arrears for ninety (90) days shall cease to be in good standing. Such members
may automatically return to good standing by paying arrears within the following sixty (60) days.
Section 4
(a) Active members shall pay individual dues of $21.00 (US) or family dues for husband and wife of $31.00 (US)
per year. Only those members who have paid their dues shall be eligible to vote.
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Section 5
Resignation from membership shall be made in writing to the Secretary, but it shall not relieve any member
from liability for any dues in arrears at the time such resignation is submitted. (a) Any member who has not been in good standing for a period of sixty (60) days shall automatically cease to
be a member of JCA. The Board of Directors may, however, extend such period for any such member.
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