Bill Text: IN SB0350 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Selection of alumni trustees for Wabash College.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-13 - Public Law 31 [SB0350 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-SB0350-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 23-13-19-3.
Synopsis: Selection of alumni trustees for Wabash College. Removes
the requirement that the board of directors of the National Association
of Wabash Men (board) nominate candidates for alumni trustee at the
board's first annual meeting. Makes a technical correction. Provides
that electronic voting may be used to elect an alumni trustee.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative
Procedure.
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(b) At the annual meeting of the alumni association of Wabash College, a committee of canvassers consisting of three (3) alumni, at least one (1) of whom shall be a resident of Montgomery County, Indiana, shall be elected to serve for the ensuing year and until their successors are elected.
(c) On the fourth Tuesday of February in each year, the registrar shall mail from Crawfordsville, Indiana, to each alumnus of the college a ballot which lists the names of the candidates selected by the board
of directors of the National Association of Wabash Men, along with
spaces for two (2) "write-in" candidates in even-numbered years and a
space for a "write-in" candidate in odd-numbered years. The ballot
shall also contain information and instructions concerning the time and
manner of voting. Each alumnus is entitled to vote for two (2)
candidates in even-numbered years, and for one (1) candidate in
odd-numbered years. Each alumnus, having designated on his ballot his
two (2) choices or his one (1) choice for the positions or position of
alumni trustee, as the case may be, shall sign this ballot and mail it to
the committee of canvassers in care of the registrar's office, Wabash
College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Alternatively, each alumnus may
vote for the alumnus' choice or choices of candidates by use of a
secure electronic agent that creates an electronic record with the
capability of including an electronic signature, consistent with the
definitions provided in IC 26-2-8-102, as established by the
registrar and identical in substance to the mailed ballot. On the
fourth Tuesday of April in each year, the ballots (including ballots
cast electronically) shall be opened and canvassed by the committee
of canvassers. Within three (3) days thereafter the committee shall
certify to the secretary of the board of trustees the names of the two (2)
candidates in even-numbered years and the name of the one (1)
candidate in odd-numbered years, receiving the highest number of
votes. At its next meeting following the fourth Tuesday in April of each
year, the board of trustees shall elect to its membership the two (2)
candidates or the one (1) candidate, as the case may be, whose names
or name has been so certified to the board's secretary by the committee
of canvassers.
(d) If, in any year, for any cause, the alumni fail to select the alumni
trustee or trustees as provided in this section, the board of trustees shall
elect, by a majority vote of the trustees in office present and voting at
the election meeting, two (2) alumni in even-numbered years or one (1)
alumnus in odd-numbered years, as the case may be, to serve as alumni
trustees of Wabash College. Subject to the provisions of this chapter,
the trustees shall, by a majority vote of their number present and voting
at the time of such election, elect successor trustees in the event of the
death or resignation of any of their number. Any vacancies so filled
shall be for the unexpired term of the trustee whose death or
resignation has caused such vacancy.
(e) The word "alumnus", as used throughout this section, means any
person holding a degree in a course from the college and any person
who has been in residence at the college one (1) year or more. The
word "alumnus" does not include any person actively on the rolls of the
college as an undergraduate at the time of any annual election of trustees, or any person without a degree who entered the college with a class which has not yet graduated at the time of any annual election.
