National Constitution, Bylaws, NEC Regulations & Board of ...

[Pages:128]National Constitution, Bylaws, NEC Regulations

& Board of Directors Information

National Convention Orlando, Florida August 3?6, 2019

NATIONAL ADJUTANT J. Marc Burgess

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 3725 Alexandria Pike Cold Spring, KY 41076 859-441-7300

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NATIONAL OFFICERS 2019?2020 National Commander. . . . . . . . . . Stephen Whitehead Sr. Vice Commander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald Day 1st Jr. Vice Commander. . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Marshall 2nd Jr. Vice Commander. . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Parsetich 3rd Jr. Vice Commander. . . . . . . . . . . Nancy Espinosa 4th Jr. Vice Commander. . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Contreras National Judge Advocate. . . . . . . Michael E. Dobmeier National Chaplain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael P. Dover Past National Commander. . . . . . . . . . Dennis R. Nixon

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NEC 1st District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helen Bennett NEC 2nd District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keith A. Robinson NEC 3rd District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ernest S. Boisvert NEC 4th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin G. Flynn NEC 5th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Iacavazzi NEC 6th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert D. Cox NEC 7th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack L. Johnson NEC 8th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry L. Bratton NEC 9th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Walls NEC 10th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . James R. Dempsey NEC 11th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Will Davis NEC 12th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin J. Walkowski NEC 13th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Terry Sanders NEC 14th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Warren Tobin NEC 15th District. . . . . . . . . . . . David Thornburg, Jr. NEC 16th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirk H. Johnson NEC 17th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Timothy Talley NEC 18th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Julian V. Crawford NEC 19th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saranna Hack NEC 20th District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Parker NEC 21st District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John F. Donovan

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dennis R. Nixon, Chairman Texas

Donald Day, Vice Chairman New York

J. Marc Burgess, Secretary Kentucky

Robert D. Cox, Treasurer Virginia

Kevin J. Walkowski, Director Wisconsin

Terry W. Sanders, Director Indiana

John F. Donovan, Director Arkansas

Stephen Whitehead, Advisor Minnesota

Michael E. Dobmeier, Advisor North Dakota

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Article I -- Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Article II -- Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Article III -- Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Article IV -- Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Article V -- Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Article VI -- Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Article VII -- Executive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Article VIII -- Auxiliaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Article IX -- Amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

National Bylaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Article 1 -- Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Article 2 -- Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Article 3 -- National Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Article 4 -- National Executive Committee . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Article 5 -- National Districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Article 6 -- Charters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Article 7 -- National Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Article 8 -- State Departments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Article 9 -- Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Article 10 -- DAV Auxiliary and

Their Subordinate Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Article 11 -- Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Article 12 -- National Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Article 13 -- Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Article 14 -- National Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Article 15 -- Sources of Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Article 16 -- Disciplinary Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Article 17 -- Incorporations, Affiliations and

Other Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Article 18 -- Accumulation of Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Article 19 -- Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Regulations Of The National Executive Committee Disabled American Veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Regulation 1: Charters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Regulation 2: Contracts for Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Regulation 3: Other Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Regulation 4: Bar, Lounge or Bingo Operation . . . . . . . . 78 Regulation 5: Income from Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Regulation 6: Disciplinary Hearings and Appeals . . . . . . 79 Regulation 7: Accumulation of Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Regulation 8: Department Jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Regulation 9: Non-Discrimination Policy of DAV . . . . . 82 Regulation 10: Mission Statement of DAV . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Regulation 11: Conflict of Interest Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Regulation 12: Reimbursement

of Department and Chapter Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Board Of Directors Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Cause Marketing Revenue Sharing

with DAV Departments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Protection and Indemnification of Department

and Chapter Service Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Protection for Good-Faith Complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Addresses for Ready Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Past National Commanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

National Adjutants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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