By-LawsAmended May 4, 2003
Article 1 The Annual Meeting of the First Congregational Society of Leominster shall be held on the First Sunday in May. Special meetings may be called by the Parish Committee whenever they think advisable and shall be called upon the written request of five or more Voting Members of the Society. The Clerk shall give notice of all meetings seven days before the appointed time by causing a true copy of the warrant therefore to be posted in the Meeting House.
Article 2 Fifteen Voting Members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Article 3 The officers of the Society shall be a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector, who may be the Treasurer, a Parish Committee of up to nine members, one Auditor, three Trustees, and a Nominating Committee of three, all to be elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting. Three members of the Parish Committee shall be elected annually for a term of three years. One trustee shall be elected annually for a term of three years. The other officers shall be elected annually.
Article 4 The Parish Committee shall have the management of the prudential and financial affairs of the Society. It shall elect its Chairman, and shall fill the unexpired term of any vacancy, which may occur among the officers of the Society. It shall appoint such committees as in its judgment are required. A member of the Parish Committee shall serve on each committee so appointed.
Article 5 The clerk shall be sworn to the faithful performance of the duties and shall keep a record of all meetings of the Society.
Article 6 The Treasurer shall keep an account of the finances of the Society, pay all bills approved by the Parish Committee, and be ready to report to such committee of the financial condition of the Society, and at the annual meeting shall make a written report to the Society of its financial condition. He/She shall be bonded.
Article 7 The Trustees shall have charge of and manage all of the Society’s trust funds and shall have full power to invest and reinvest the same, and to vary said investments at will, and to see and transfer any part of the whole of said trust funds and execute proper documents for such purpose. They shall pay the income from the trust funds to the Treasurer and shall report their doings to the Annual Meeting and to the Treasurer or Parish Committee from time to time upon request of town meetings.
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