Kanawha Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
 
Proposal By-Laws Amendment
December 5, 2008
 
WHEREAS, Article V Paragraph B of the Kanawha Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (KARC)
 By-Laws, dated November 11, 2005, as amended does not permit for the proration 
of membership dues. 
 
WHEREAS, KARC’s officers and directors find it would be in KARC’s best interest to
 prorate annual dues for new full, new associate and new family members as defined
 by KARC By-Laws at Article IV page 2. A new member is defined herein as any person
 who has never been a KARC member. 
 
NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with KARC’s aforementioned By-Laws, KARC’s 
officers and directors hereby proposed to amend its By-Laws to provide for the proration
of annual dues for new KARC members as heretofore defined.
 
TO WIT: 
 
In accordance with Article XIV of KARC’s By-Laws, as amended, the following By-Laws 
Amendment is proposed:
 
AMENDMENT
 
Article V. Dues and Emergency Assessments: Paragraph B. Dues Payment reads as follows:
 
“All dues are payable on or before January 1 of each year. Members are 
encouraged to pay annual dues during the month of December. Initial 
membership dues are payable upon membership application. Membership
dues will not be prorated and there will be no refunds for expelled or 
resigning members.” 
 
KARC officers and directors propose that Article V: Paragraph B is amended to read as follows:
 
“All dues are payable on or before January 1 of each year. Members are 
encouraged to pay annual dues during the month of December. Initial 
membership dues are payable upon membership application. Membership
dues will not be prorated except for new members herein defined as a 
person who otherwise qualifies for club membership and who has never 
been a Kanawha Amateur Radio Club, Inc. member and there will be 
no refunds for expelled or resigning members.” 
 
Respectively submitted on behalf of the of Kanawha Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Board of Directors. 
 
 
 
/s/
 
Joe Richards, WV8WVU
President