Part 5 — ; (r) respecting registration, licensing, disciplinary matters a nd the practice of surveying generally. (2) A regulation under subsection (1) does not come into force unless it is approved by (a) a majority of Alberta land surveyors (i) present
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(a) for the government of the Association and the management
and conduct of its affairs;
(b) determining the location of the head office of the
Association;
(c) respecting the calling an d conduct of meetings of the
Association and the Council;
(d) respecting the nomination, election, number and term of
office of Council members and officers of the Council and
of the Association;
(e) governing the appointment of individuals as
(i) members, or
(ii) members by virtue of their office,
of the Council, the Association, the Discipline Committee,
the Board, the Registration Committee and any other board
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or committee established by the Council or the Association
and prescribing their term of office, duties and functions;
(f) establishing categories of m embership in the Association in
addition to Alberta land surveyors and prescribing the
privileges and obligations of the categories of membership
so established;
(g) providing for the election or appointment of Alberta land
surveyors to fill vacancies on the Council or any other
elected office;
(h) providing for the hiring of employees of the Association a nd
the bonding of those employees;
(i) providing for the appointment of an Acting Registrar who
has all of the powers and may perform all of the duties of
the Registrar under this Act, the regulations and the bylaws
when the Registrar is absent or unable to act or when there
is a vacancy in the office of Registrar;
(j) prescribing the number of Alberta land surveyors that
constitutes a quorum at meetings of the Association;
(k) governing the establishment, operation and proceedings of
boards and committees, the appointment and revocation of
members of boards and committees, the appointment of
acting members and procedures for filling vacancies on
boards and committees and for delegating any power or duty
of the Council under the Act, regulations or bylaws to a
board or committee established by the Council or under this
Act;
(l) prescribing fees and expenses payable to members of the
Council, the Discipline Committee, the Board or the
Registration Committee and of any other board or
committee for attending to the business of the Association;
(m) respecting the establishmen t and payment of sums of money
for scholarships, fellowships and any other educational
incentive or benefit program that the Council considers
appropriate;
(n) governing the information to be engraved on stamps and the
use of them by surveyor's corporations and surveyor's
partnerships;
(o) prescribing the date or dates on which an annual certifica te
expires;
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(p) requiring a practitioner or class of practitioners to carry
professional liability insurance and governing the minimum
coverage required to be carried by a practitioner or class of
practitioners;
(q) respecting the fees, dues and levies payable to the
Association by practitioners and other members of the
Association;
(r) respecting the establishment, content and maintenance of
registers of practitioners and of records of other categories
of membership to be kept by the Registrar;
(s) respecting the removal from the registers and records of a
memorandum or entry made in them under this Act or the
regulations or the bylaws;
(t) governing the publication of a notice of the approval for or
suspension or cancellation of the registration of a
practitioner in a form and manner prescribed by the Council;
(u) authorizing the Council to prescribe the form of articles, a
certificate of registration, a permit, an annual certificate and
any other document that may be required;
(v) respecting the holding of votes by mail on any matter
relating to the Association;
(w) prescribing an oath of office and requiring all applicants for
registration as Alberta land surveyors to take that oath;
(x) governing the publication of lists of practitioners and other
members and the information to be included in those lists.
(2) A bylaw under subsection (1) does not come into force unless
it is approved by a majority of Alberta land surveyors
(a) present and voting at a general meeting, or
(b) voting at a vote conducted by mail in accordance with the
bylaws.
(3) The Regulations Act does not apply to the bylaws of the
Association made under this section.
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