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I. TITLE AND HEADQUARTERS OF THE SOCIETY
Article 1.Title and Headquarters of the Society
Title of the Society is “The Society of Medical
Ultrasonography”; its headquarters is located in Izmir, it has no
branches. Abbreviated title for the Society is as “TUD”.
Article 2.Purpose of
the Society; and the work subjects and forms to be executed in order to
realize this purpose
The purpose,
working subjects, working form and field of activity of the Society is
as follows:
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To determine the
standpoints and improvements in medical ultrasonography field which
is used for human health, and inform doctors regarding these
standpoints and improvements; to strengthen the occupational unity
amongst the employees of this field; to deal with their occupational
problems.
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To encourage and promote
scientific works and researches in medical ultrasonography field; to
hold seminaries, symposiums, conferences and various national or
international scientific meetings and also to participate in these
kinds of meetings.
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To encourage, promote and
direct the works regarding public and environmental health which are
within the scope of its field of activity.
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To found a documentation
center regarding medical ultrasonography; to collect literature; to
establish a library; to make publishing.
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To get in scientific and
technical cooperation with the medical societies and associations
having similar purposes both inland and abroad.
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To organize cultural and
social activities in order to promote the relation between members
(to organize joy rides, to found funds and camps, to make agreements
with cooperatives and other associations for its members, to open
locals, etc.).
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To purchase immovables, to
sell, transfer and donate immovables when require, to open health
institutions, to establish administrations, funds and charitable
funds in order to reach its subject and purpose regarding medical
ultrasonography.
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To inform the relevant
institutions about the policies it establishes regarding quality of
the service and health by making human force planning in medical
ultrasonography field.
II. MEMBERSHIP
Article 3. Right to Membership, Expulsion and
Resignation From Membership
a) Membership and Right to Membership
Persons having the civil rights, whose memberships
are not prohibited with relevant laws, who are older than 18 years old
can be members of Medical Ultrasonography Society. The society
membership is divided into two groups as “associate member” and
“honorary member”:
1. Associate members:
The doctors dealing with medical
ultrasonography can be the associate members of the society. They should
pay a registration fee and an annual fee for membership.
2. Honorary members:
The persons who have obtained great
success and contributed the medical ultrasonography field both inland
and abroad, and the persons having the qualities of associate members
who have served in the field for many years who are determined by the
Board of Directors.
b) Membership Applications
For Society membership, an application with a
petition should be presented to the Board of Directors. The Board of
Directors is obliged to decide on the membership application and inform
the candidate about the positive or negative result decided. The
membership gets final with a notification following the payment of
registration fee and annual fee.
c) Expulsion and
Resignation From Membership
The Society membership ends under the following
circumstances:
1. Naturally in case of death
2. Naturally in case the qualities required by the
laws and regulatory statue for membership are lost afterwards.
3. The membership of a member who fails to make the
payment of annual fee within a calendar year although being warned twice
with a registered mail with an interval of one month naturally falls on
the 90th day following the date of first registered mail
sent. This circumstance is registered in the member registry book. The
persons whose memberships have fallen under this circumstance may
reapply for membership after making the required payments.
4. The members have the right to resign from the
society membership with their own will provided that it is notified at
least six months earlier in writing.
III. ORGANS OF THE
SOCIETY
A) General Assembly
B) Board of Directors
C) Audit Commission
A. General Assembly
Article 4.Formation, Gathering Type and Time of
General Assembly
The General Assembly consists of associate and
honorary members. General Assembly makes stated meetings within December
once in two (2) years. Extraordinary meetings may be held within 30 days
in cases where Board of Directors or audit commission deems necessary or
upon the written request of society members.
The Board of Directors shall create a list of the
members having the right to participate in the General Assembly in
accordance with the regulatory statue of the Society. The members having
the right to participate in the General Assembly are called to the
Assembly by being informed by announcement of the time, place and agenda
of the Assembly on a newspaper, or via a written or electronic mail at
least 15 (fifteen) days prior to the Assembly. In case the assembly
cannot be held since a majority cannot be obtained, the date, time and
lace of the second assembly is also notified. The interval between the
first and second assembly cannot be shorter than seven days and longer
than sixty days. In case the assembly is postponed for a reason other
than not having the majority obtained, this circumstance is notified to
the members with the reasons of postponing the assembly in accordance
with the call procedure for the first assembly. The second assembly
should be held within six months following the date of postpone. The
members are called for second assembly in accordance with the above
mentioned principles. General Assembly cannot be postponed more than
once. In case a quorum cannot be obtained in the first assembly, no
quorum is required for the second assembly; however the number of the
participant members cannot be less than two times of total number of the
members of Board of Directors and Audit Commission.
Article 5. General
Assembly
The list of the members having the right to
participate in General Assembly should be available at the place of
assembly. The identity cards issued by official authorities of the
members who will enter the place of assembly shall be controlled by the
persons assigned by the members of Board of Directors or by the Board of
Directors itself. The members enter the place of assembly by placing
their signatures across their names written on the list. Persons who do
not present their identity cards, who do not sign the abovementioned
list and who do not have the right to participate in the General
Assembly shall not be taken into the place of assembly. These persons
and the ones who are not society members may watch the general assembly
from a separate section.
If a quorum is obtained in the assembly, then this
circumstance is determined with a minutes and the assembly is opened by
the Chairman of the Board of Directors or one of the members of the
Board of directors assigned by the Chairman of Board of Directors. In
case a quorum cannot be obtained, minutes shall be issued by the Board
of Directors. Following the opening, a chairman, a sufficient number of
vice-chairmen and a secretary are selected in order to form a Council.
The voting members should present their
identification and place their signatures across their names written on
the lists in order to be eligible to vote for the election of society
organs. Management of the assembly and providing the security is the
responsibility of Council Chairman. The General Assembly is finalized
after the subjects in agenda are discussed and decided.
Each member has a right of a single vote, and the
members should vote individually by himself/herself. The subjects
discussed and the decisions taken in the assembly shall be written in a
minutes and this minutes shall be signed by the Council Chairman and the
secretaries. The minutes and other documents are delivered to the
Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Chairman of Board of Directors
is responsible for the protection and delivery of these documents to the
new selected Board of Directors within seven days.
In case an administrator is assigned by a Court or an
assignment is done in accordance with the second paragraph of 75th
Article of the Civil Law, the duties assigned to the Board of Directors
with this article are performed with these assigned persons.
Article 6.Agenda of
General Assembly
The agenda of the General Assembly is determined by
the Board of Directors and the General Assembly discussions are
performed in accordance with the agenda sheet. In case at least one
tenth of the participants of the general assembly make a written
request, the requested subjects should be taken into the agenda.
Article 7.Duties and
Authorities of the General Assembly
The duties and authorities of the General Assembly
are as follows:
a)
To control the budget proposal for the forthcoming activity year
issued by the Board of Directors and certify it as it is or after making
alterations;
b)
To control and accept the administrative and financial reports of
Board of Directors and Audit Commission; to decide on discharge of Board
of Directors and Audit Commission;
c)
To select the Board of Directors and Audit Commission;
d)
To give authority to the Board of Directors in order to acquire
immovables;
e)
To make regulatory statue alterations;
f)
To check and decide on the situation of the objecting members who
were expulsed from the society with the decision of Board of Directors;
g)
To decide on the annulment of the society;
h)
To fulfill other duties indicated with Laws and society’s
regulatory statue that have to be executed by the General Assembly;
i)
To make decisions regarding the purpose and working subjects of
the society.
The General Assembly decisions are taken with the
open vote of the majority of the participants. Voting shall be repeated
in case of a draw.
Article 8. Selection of
Society Organs
The organs of the society are selected with vote by
secret ballot. For these elections, each member participating the
assembly may show as many as candidates amongst the registered members
of the society. However, the written consents of the candidates who are
not present at the time of election should be taken prior to the
election. After the candidates are determined, the elections for the
Board of Directors and the Audit Commission are done. Ballot boxes are
given to the Counting Committee of 3 persons who are selected by the
General Assembly with an open voting. The counting results are presented
by this committee to the Council and the Chairmanship announces the
result. In case two candidates get equal votes, then the Counting
Committee draws lots. The candidate who could not enter associate
membership goes to the top of alternate members list.
Article 9.Result
Notification of General Assembly
Within 30 (thirty) days following the stated and
extraordinary general assemblies, the General Assembly Result
Notification and the following appendixes which indicates the Board of
Directors and Audit Commissions and the associate and alternate members
selected for other organs should be presented to the civil authorities:
a)
sample of the General Assembly minutes signed by the Chairman,
vice chairmen and secretary of the Council;
b)
in case a regulatory statue revision is in question, a sample of
the revised form of society regulatory statue with signatures of the
Board of Directors on each page together with the old and new forms of
the revised articles of the regulatory statue.
The General Board Result Notification and its
appendixes are presented by the Chairman of Board of Directors or an
assigned member of Board of Directors. Failure to present the result
Notification is under the responsibility of the Chairman of Board of
Directors.
B-Board of Directors
Article 10. Election of Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is elected by the General
Assembly for 2 (two) years and consists of 7 associate and 7 alternate
members. Each member who has a voting right has nomination right for the
membership of the Board of Directors. The nominees are determined and
declared for the election of the Board of Directors and they are voted
by the General Assembly. The Counting Committee executes the counting
and designates how many votes are polled by each member. The Board of
Directors is constituted by designating the 7 nominees who get the most
of the votes as associate members and the next 7 nominees as alternate
members. The required information of associate and alternate members of
the Audit Committee is presented to the Civil Authorities during a
statutory period by the Chairman of the Board of Directors as law and
regulations require.
Article 11. Duty
Distribution of Board of Directors
The board of Directors elects 1 chairman, 1
Secretary and 1 Accountant among the associate members.
Article 12. Duties of
the Members of the Board of Directors:
The duties of the
members of the board of directors are :
1. He is in charge
of the application of the Regulatory statue and the decisions of the
General Assembly and fulfillment of the works of the society in
accordance with the decisions of the General Assembly and laws, and is
responsible for these against the General Assembly.
2. He executes the works related to the
income-expenditure accounts of the Society and prepares the budget which
belongs to the next term and presents it to the General Assembly.
3. He is the legal representative of the Society and
authorized to act on behalf of the Society. The Board of Directors can
give these authorizations to one or a few of the members of its own
partially or completely on its own will.
4. In case of the acceptance of the people who are
not a Turkish citizen to the society, he declares them to the
Governorship in ten days.
5. The Board of Directors makes decisions on
acceptance or non-acceptance of who applies and on expelling the members
from the membership.
6. These bases are applied in the duty distribution
among the members of the Board of Directors:
a) The Chairman leads in the assemblies of the Board
of Directors, represents society in all official and private relations.
b) The Secretary Member keeps the records of
negotiations, provides made decisions to be applied and executes the
correspondences related to the society.
c) The Accountant Member supervises the society
books, checks the accounts and fulfills the financial duties given by
the Board of Directors. He submits the account reports prepared by him
to the approval of the board of Directors.
d)
The Board of Directors is free to set up an adequate committee
for working
under the chairmanship of one of
the members of the board. The chairman of the committee can expand the
committee through anyone he will select from the members of the Society
as he demands. The chairman of the committee gives the Board of
Directors the information about the activities of the committee.
Article 13. Assemblies
and Decisions of the Board of Directors
The assembly is held upon the request of the
chairman of the board of directors or the majority in case of the quorum
is met and the decisions are made by the majority of whom attends the
assembly. The member who does not attend 3 assemblies consecutively
without a binding reason, he is expelled from the board by the decision
of the Board of Directors.
C- Audit Commission
The Audit Commission is elected by the General
Assembly for 2 (two) years and consists of 3 associate members and 3
alternate members. Each member who has a voting right has nomination
right for the membership of the Audit Commission. The nominees are
determined and declared for the election of the Audit Commission and
they are voted by the General Assembly. The Counting Committee executes
the counting and designates how many votes are polled by each member.
The Audit Commission is constituted by designating the 3 nominees who
get the most of the votes as associate members and the next 3 nominees
as alternate members. The required information of associate and
alternate members of the Audit Committee is presented to the Civil
Authorities during a statutory period by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors as law and regulations require.
Article 15. Duty and
Authorities of Audit Committee, Bases of Internal Control
The internal audit of the Society is the base. The
Audit Committee checks whether they show activities in accordance with
the working subjects which are mentioned to be maintained in order to
fulfill the purposes indicated in the regulatory statue; whether the
book, account and records are maintained in accordance with the
legislation and the regulatory statue of the association, according to
the base and procedures determined in the regulatory statue of the
Society and in intervals not longer than a year, and submits the results
of control to the Board of Directors and the General Assembly when they
meet as a report. Upon the request of the members of the Audit
Commission, it is obligatory that any information, documents and records
to be disclosed or handed by the authorities of the association, and
that the demand of entering to the administrating places, enterprises
and outlying buildings to be fulfilled.
IV. SOURCE OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES OF THE
SOCIETY
Article 16. Incomes of the Society
The incomes of the Society are provided by the
following ways:
a)
Incomes of member entrance and annual dues,
b)
Incomes obtained from the scientific congress and conference,
ball, concert, trip, theatre and similar activities arranged by the
association,
c)
Donations and contributions in accordance with laws related to
collecting contributions,
d)
Incomes obtained from the property of the association,
e)
The contributions which will be accepted from the real or legal
entities from foreign countries upon the permit of the Ministry of
Interior.
The procedures which are mentioned under the related
clauses of the Society Law are to be obeyed during the collection of
these incomes.
Article 17. Expenditures of the Society
The expenditures of the Society are held in return
for an official document by the decision of the Board of Directors in
the frame of accepted budget.
Article 18.
Contribution and Cooperation
The Society may receive material contribution from
the associations and occupational enterprises with similar purposes in
order to fulfill the purposes which are mentioned in the regulatory
statue and may help the said establishments financially. The regulation
bases are applied for the contributions to be received from abroad.
Article 19. Loan of the Society
The Board of Directors can get into a debt only
provided to pay within its own term. It is stipulated that the debt to
be foreseen in the budget submitted to the General Assembly by the
responsible Board of Directors and that this debt should not exceed the
quarter of the budget.
V. BOOKS AND
REGISTRATION OF THE SOCIETY
Article 20. Books and
Records of the Society
The Society maintains the following books of which
procedure and method is designated by legislation:
1) Casebook: the decisions of the Board of Directors
are written in this book in the order of date and number and the
decisions are undersigned by the members who have attended six meetings.
2) Members’ Registry Book: The identity information,
the date of entry and exit to the Society of the members are entered
into this book. The entrance and annual subscription amounts paid by the
members may be entered into this book.
3) Document Registry Book: The incoming and outgoing
documents are recorded in this book in the order of date and number. The
originals of the incoming documents and copies of the outgoing documents
are filed. The documents which are received or sent by e-mail are kept
providing making a print out of each.
4) Book of Fixtures: The acquiring date and way of
the fixtures which belong to the Association, and the places which they
are used in or given to, and deleting the record of the fixtures which
ceases using life is entered into this book.
5) Book of Trading Account: The incomes and
expenditures made on behalf of the Society are entered into this book
clearly and orderly.
6) Registry Book of Bill of Delivery: The serial and
sequence number of the bills of delivery, and the name, surname and
signatures of who receive and return these bills, and the date of
receiving and returning are entered into this book.
It’s obligatory that these books are to be certified
by a unit of associations or a public notary.
The related legislation clauses are applied in the
usage procedures of the books.
VI. ALTERATIONS TO
REGULATORY STATUE
Article 21. Alterations to the Regulatory Statues
Alterations to the regulatory statues are made the
decision of the two-third majority of the members who attend the
assembly providing advertising in the journal of the Assembly in
advance. The alterations made to the regulatory statue of the Society
shall be notified to the civil authorities under the frame of procedures
designated by law and legislation within the 30 (thirty) days from the
Assembly where the alteration to the regulatory statue is made.
VII. TERMINATION AND
DISCHARGE
Article 22. The TERMİNATİON AND Discharge of the
Society
While the termination of the Society may be
requested by the Board of Directors and the Audit Commission, it may be
demanded by the one-fifth of the Society members in written. In case of
such demand, the associations shall apply the related Article of law and
legislations. In accordance with this case, the Extraordinary Meeting
may agree to terminate the Association. It’s stipulated that at least
the two-third of the members who have the right to attend the General
Assembly according to the regulatory statue to attend the assembly in
order to determine the termination. The decisions about the termination
are taken by the two-third majority of the attendance members. In case
of the decision of termination, the General Assembly elects a Discharge
Commission of three people and the termination of the Society is
notified to the Governorship by the Board of Directors in 5 days in
written. the statue of where the asset, money and entity of the Society
to be given to in discharge is determined by the General Assembly. The
related legislation clauses are applied for the procedure and bases of
discharge.
Article 23. Who will
benefit from the institution and activities of the Society and how?
The decree of the Board of Directors is required for
whom demands to benefit from the institutions and activities of the
Society out of the members.
Article 24.
In cases which are not mentioned in this regulatory statue, the
adjudication of the related laws, the Laws of Associations and the
related legislations are applied.
SIGNATURES
FINAL
BOARD OF DIRECTOR MEMBERS TITLE
Enis IGCI
The Chairman
Suha Sureyya OZBEK
The Secretary
Mustafa SECIL
The
Accountant
Deniz AKATA
The Member
Adnan KABAALIOGLU
The Member
Mustafa Nasuh OZMEN
The Member
Ismail MIHMANLI
The Member |
