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--- constitution:ii [2012/09/16 22:36]
trusheim Created from 2007 Constitution, through Section 4
+++ constitution:ii [2013/11/25 23:55] (current)
assu-editor [Section 7. Nominations Commission]
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 Quorum for conducting votes mandated in this Constitution shall consist of a majority of the non-vacant Graduate Student Council seats.
-==== D. Ex-Officio Members of the Graduate Student Council ====
+==== Ex-Officio Members of the Graduate Student Council ====
   - The President of the Association, members of the Undergraduate Senate, and Financial Manager shall be ex-officio members of the Graduate Student Council.
   - The Graduate Student Council may appoint other members of the Association as ex-officio members of the Graduate Student Council.
-==== E. Graduate Student Council Term of Office and Transition ====
+==== D. Graduate Student Council Term of Office and Transition ====
 The term of office and transition procedures for the Graduate Student Council shall be specified in the Graduate Student Council's By-Laws, with the condition that whatever the procedures are, they must be completed by the end of the academic quarter in which the election for the Graduate Student Council took place.
-==== F. Graduate Student Council Officers ====
+==== E. Graduate Student Council Officers ====
 The Graduate Student Council shall choose its Chair, Deputy Chair, and Financial Officer. The Chair shall preside over the Graduate Student Council.
-==== G. Removal from the Graduate Student Council ====
+==== F. Removal from the Graduate Student Council ====
 The procedure for removing members of the Graduate Student Council shall be specified in the Graduate Student Council's By-Laws.
+===== Section 5. Budgetary and Financial Policy =====
+Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, the members of the Association shall have the ultimate
+authority to determine the budget of the Association and its agencies, as well as their budgetary, financial,  investment, business, and operating policies. The members of the various Association populations shall also have the ultimate authority to establish rules ensuring that funds derived from fees levied upon those populations are expended and accounted for properly. As the representative bodies for the students, the  legislative bodies of the Association shall exercise these powers in the names of the members of their respective constituencies.
+===== Section 6. Agencies of the Association =====
+The legislative bodies of the Association shall have the power to create, modify, and abolish agencies of the
+Association including, but not limited to, projects providing services to members of the Association. The functions, structure, officers, and finances of all such agencies may be specified jointly by the  Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council for those agencies whose purpose involves  members of both the undergraduate and graduate populations. Otherwise, the above structures may be specified only by the legislative body for the relevant population.
+===== Section 7. Nominations Commission =====
+  - Each year, the legislative bodies of the Association shall jointly choose the Nominations Commission. No member of an Association legislative body may be a member of the Nominations Commission. All members of the Association are, except as specified in this section, eligible to serve on the Nominations Commission.
+  - Student representatives for University committees shall be nominated by the Association through the Nominations Commission. Representatives of the relevant population shall be confirmed by the relevant Association legislative body and the consent of the President of the Association. The Association legislative bodies and the Association President shall not have the power to alter the nominations of the Nominations Committee.
+  - The Nominations Commission may recommend to the relevant legislative bodies the removal of any representative of the Association on a University committee who does not regularly attend meetings of her/his committees or do not otherwise fulfill her/his obligations to her/his committee. The Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council may by a two-thirds vote remove such members. The legislative bodies of the Association may only act to remove a representative of the Association after the Nominations Commission recommends her/his removal.
+  -  Alternate procedures for these nominations may be specified through agreements between the relevant Association legislative bodies, the President of the Association, and the President of the University, if the Nominations Commission is unable to make the nominations. Such agreements must be submitted by the President of the Association to the relevant Association legislative bodies in writing. All such agreements must meet with the approval of the President of the Association as well as a majority vote of the Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council.\\ No such agreement may last for more than a period of one year, but may be renewed by the relevant Association legislative body each year.
+===== Section 8. Confirmation of Appointments =====
+The Association legislative bodies shall have the right to confirm appointments of representatives of the Stanford student body, except in those cases where an alternate procedure has been approved by a majority vote of the Association voting in a general election.
+===== Section 9. Elections =====
+Each Association legislative body shall have sole power to make rules governing elections involving only members of the population it represents, in accordance with this Constitution. For elections involving the Association population, the Association legislative bodies shall have the joint power to make rules, in accordance with this Constitution.
+===== Section 10. By-Laws =====
+==== A. Undergraduate Senate By-Laws ====
+  - Shall cover those matters affecting only the undergraduate population and its representatives.
+  - May be amended at a regular meeting of the Undergraduate Senate by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, provided that notice has been given at the previous regular meeting.
+==== B. Graduate Student Council By-Laws ====
+  - Shall cover those matters affecting only the graduate population and its representatives.
+  - May be amended at a regular meeting of the Graduate Student Council by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, provided that notice has been given at the previous regular meeting.
+==== C. Association By-Laws ====
+  - Shall cover all matters affecting both the graduate and undergraduate populations, or affecting both populations' representatives.
+  - May be amended only by joint approval of the Undergraduate Senate and Graduate Student Council, in the manners described in Paragraphs A(2) and B(2) of this Section, respectively.
+===== Section 11. Joint Meetings of the Association Legislative Bodies =====
+The Executive Committee shall have the power to call joint meetings of the Association legislative bodies. The Vice President of the Association shall serve as the Presiding Officer of all such joint meetings. The procedures for calling such meetings shall be included in the Association By-Laws. The only conditions on these procedures are that public notice must be given of all such meetings, minutes must be taken at all such meetings, and these minutes must be made publicly available within one week of being approved.
+===== Section 12. Joint Approval by Association Legislative Bodies =====
+Unless otherwise stated in this Constitution, the joint approval of any item of business by the Association legislative bodies shall not necessarily require a joint meeting of the Association legislative bodies.
+===== Section 13. Open Ballot =====
+All votes of Association legislative bodies shall be by open ballot.

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