BY-LAWS
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SUN VALLEY HOMEOWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
ARTICLE V
MEETINGS OF ASSOCIATION
Section 1. Place.
All meetings of the Sub-Association
shall be held at such place as may be stated in the notice of the
meeting.
Section 2. Annual Meeting.
- The first annual meeting of the Sub-Association shall be held
on a date and time determined by the Board of Directors. In
addition to the election of Directors at said first meeting, such
other business as may properly come before the meeting may be
transacted.
- Regular annual meetings subsequent to the first meeting shall
be held at such dates and times as determined by the Board of
Directors.
- At the annual meetings, the Members by a majority vote
(cumulative voting prohibited) shall elect a Board of Directors
and transact such other business as may properly come before the
meeting.
- Written notice of the annual meeting shall be personally
served upon or mailed by mail to each Voting Representative at
least fourteen days prior to the meeting. An officer's certificate
of mailing shall be retained as proof of such mailing. A
notice of such meeting shall be posted at a conspicuous place on
the Common Properties at least fourteen days prior to the
meeting.
Section 3. Voting List.
At least fourteen days before
every election of Directors, a complete list of those persons
entitled to vote at said election shall be prepared by the
Secretary. Such list shall be produced and kept for said fourteen
days and throughout the election at the office of the Association
and shall be open to examination by any person entitled
to vote throughout such time.
Section 4. Special Members' Meetings.
- Special Members' meetings of the Sub-Association may be called
by the President, and
shall be called by the President or Secretary at the request in
writing of those persons holding ten percent of the Sub-Association's
voting interests. If the President or Secretary fail to notice
such a special Members' meeting within twenty days of receipt of
a request, then a majority of those of voting interests, or if there
is no objection, then any one of them may notice the meeting.
Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting.
- Notice of a special Members' meeting
stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting shall be provided
to each member at such address
as appears on the books of the Sub-Association at least seven
days before such meeting in a manner permitted by law, including
written and electronic, and shall be
posted at a conspicuous place on the Common Properties at least
fourteen days before the meeting; however, in case of an emergency
notice shall be provided as is reasonable and appropriate pursuant
to law.
- Business transacted at all special Members' meetings shall be confined
to the purpose stated in the notice of meeting.
Section 5. Quorum.
Persons holding thirty percent of the
voting interests shall constitute a quorum at all Members'
meetings of the Sub-Association for the transaction of business,
except as otherwise provided by law, the Articles of
Incorporation or these By-Laws.
- If a quorum shall not be present or represented
at any meeting of the Sub-Association, the persons entitled to
vote there-at, shall have
the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without
notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum
shall be present or represented.
At such adjourned meeting at
which a quorum shall be present, any business may
be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting
originally called.
- The joinder of holders of voting interests
in the action of a meeting by signing and
concurring in the minutes shall constitute the presence
of such member for the purpose of determining a quorum and
consenting to the business occurring at the meeting.
- A voting interest which is present by proxy shall be
deemed present for the purpose of establishing a quorum
and as otherwise provided by law.
Section 6. Vote Required to Transact Business.
When a quorum is present at any meeting, a majority of the votes cast,
shall decide any question brought before the meeting, unless the
question is one which, by express provision of the Florida
Statutes, the Declaration, the Articles of Incorporation or these
By-Laws requires a different vote, in which case such express
provision shall govern and control the decision of such question.
Notwithstanding anything contained in these By-Laws to the
contrary, at annual Members meetings a quorum shall be deemed to
be that number of Members present at the meeting and no minimum
number of Members shall be deemed required for a quorum.
Section 7. Waiver and Consent.
Whenever the vote of
Members at a meeting is required or
permitted by any provision of the Florida Statutes, the
Declaration, the Articles of Incorporation or these By-Laws
in connection with any action of the Sub-Association, the
meeting and vote of Members may be dispensed with if all such
persons who would have been entitled
to vote upon the action of such meeting if such meeting were held
shall consent in writing to such action being taken.
Section 8. Order of Business.
The order of business at
annual Members' meetings and, as far as practical, at other
Members' meetings will be:
- Determination of quorum.
- Proof of notice of meeting or waiver of notice.
- Approval of unapproved minutes.
- Officers' reports.
- Committee reports.
- Elections.
- Unfinished business.
- New business.
- Good and Welfare.
- Adjournment
- New business.
- Adjournment.