Bylaws
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ARTICLE 1 — Objects
ARTICLE 2 — Membership Qualifications and Obligations
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2.1 Classes and Obligations of Membership
2.2 Eligibility for Membership
2.3 Forced Combinations
2.4 Periodicals Selling Advertising as a Unit
2.5 Member Representative, Proxy Execution
2.6 Application for Membership — All
2.7 Application for Publisher Membership
2.8 Publisher Duty to Install and Maintain Records
2.9 Transfer Between Divisions
2.10 Notice of Changes
2.11 Paid and/or Qualified Circulation Defined (Newspapers Only)
2.12 Calculating Percentage of Paid and/or Qualified Circulation (Newspapers Only)
2.13 Provisional Membership (Newspapers Only)
2.14 Publisher's Statements - Filing and Certification
2.15 Access to Records
2.16 Suspension of Publisher's Statement and Audit Report Service
2.17 Membership Certificates
2.18 Waiver of Damages and Indemnification
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3.1 Dues Obligation
3.2 Dues by Classification
3.3 Report Service and Audit Costs
3.4 International Publications
3.5 Publications Indebted to AAM
3.6 Adjustment of Dues
3.7 Ownership of Copyright and Indemnification
ARTICLE 4 — Board of Directors
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4.1 Responsibility, Vacancies
4.2 Membership Representation
4.3 Nomination and Election
4.4 Powers
4.5 Meetings, Quorum, Attendance
4.6 Committees
4.7 Special Investigation
4.8 Indemnification
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5.1 Board Officers
5.2 Chair of the Board
5.3 Secretary
5.4 Treasurer
5.5 President and Managing Director
5.6 Bonding Officers or Employees
5.7 Removal from Office
ARTICLE 6 — Membership Meetings
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6.1 Time and Place of Annual Meeting
6.2 Votes, Proxies
6.3 Quorum
6.4 Resolutions
6.5 Reports
6.6 Special Meetings
6.7 Procedures
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