BLUE HEAVEN INVESTMENT CLUB
Bylaws and
Operating Procedures
I. DUTIES
- OFFICERS: Annually, at the December
meeting, the following named officers shall be elected (to assume their duties on the following first of January)
by a majority vote of the partners to the following positions and duties:
- Presiding Partner: Duty is to set meeting dates and locations,
appoint committees and tracking partners and to recommend partners for
the next meeting(s) and to see that resolutions passed by the partnership
are carried out.
- Assistant Presiding Partner: Duty is to take the place of
the
Presiding Partner when absent or incapacitated. He/she shall be
responsible to see that a study program and tracking program
are properly carried out.
- Recording Partner: Duty is to keep a record of the actions
authorized by the partners, to maintain partnership files, to notify
members of meetings and other activities, to advise absentee members of
proceedings of the meetings, pertinent news and information, and to mail the
financial report to absentee members after each monthly meeting.
- Financial Partner: Duty is to keep a record of and be
responsible for the partnership receipts, disbursements, and members'
interests in the partnership. He/she is also responsible for placing
the buy and sell orders authorized by the partners with the partnership's
broker(s). He/she will prepare the partnership's monthly valuation
statement, and prepare the annual partnership account statement.
- PARTNERS: Partners are assigned the following
responsibilities. Definitions of activities are provided.
- Tracking: Tracking is to follow one or more particular
stocks purchased or selected by the partnership. Partner is to watch its
value and give an opinion as to its [continued] desirability at
meetings.
- Recommending: Recommending is to give a positive or negative
opinion about a stock at the next after investigating it.
- Other Duties: All partners must
actively
participate in ongoing activities of the partnership by preparing analyses
and other assignments to further the investing endeavors of the partnership,
and by making regular financial contributions to the partnership.
- Participating by Mail: If a partner
moves,
is transferred, or otherwise lives more than fifty (50) miles from Chapel Hill,
he/she may participate in the Club by mail or by Proxy. All monthly dues
and fees must be received prior to the normal monthly meeting.
II. MEETINGS
- TIME AND PLACE: The partnership shall hold regularly scheduled
meetings once a month at a time, date, and location to be agreed upon by
a majority of the partners. Special meetings may be called by the Presiding
Partner or any three partners upon notice to all the other partners.
- QUORUM: A quorum shall consist of the representation, in
person or by proxy, of a simple majority of the total capital account
value.
- PROXIES: Partners may give their
proxy in writing to any partners, to be given to the recording partner at
the beginning of the meeting for which authorized. Proxies must be given
only for meetings specified therein.
- GUESTS: Partners may invite guests
to any meeting of the partnership. If any partner thinks that a meeting
or any part thereof should be closed to guests because of internal matters
for discussions, the Presiding Partner shall declare the meeting closed by
notifying the hosting partner.
III. DIVIDENDS: Dividends shall be added to the
assets of the
partnership.
IV. BANK: The partnership shall maintain a checking
account at
the bank that the partnership deems necessary or desirable.
V. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
- VALUATION STATEMENTS: A monthly valuation statement shall list
all assets, at cost and market values, and liabilities of the partnership
as of the valuation date. It shall also define the unit value and the
number of units that can be purchased for each monthly contribution as
defined below.
- ANNUAL PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNTING: The annual partnership
accounting shall show the distribution of dividends, interest, capital
gains, and expenses.
VI. PAYMENTS
- DATE OF PAYMENTS: The minimum
monthly dues of thirty dollars ($30.00) per partner are due and payable at
the beginning of each regularly scheduled meeting. Five dollars ($5.00)
of the monthly dues are to be placed in the Club's general operating account
to be used at the discretion of the Club.
- FAILURE TO PAY:
- Any partner failing to pay monthly dues by the due date will be
assessed a fine of five dollars ($5.00). Fines will not be used to increase the partners' capital account value in the Club.
Instead, all fines will be placed in the Club's general operating account.
- Non-payment of dues or fines for three consecutive months
shall be deemed written notice of withdrawal in accordance with paragraph
18 of the partnership agreement unless a waiver is granted by a majority of
the partners.
- INITIATION FEES: All members will be
required to pay a one time fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00). This fee
must be paid in full by the beginning of the second meeting the new member
attends, and may be paid in two equal payments. The first portion of this
money ($50.00) will be used to help defray the Club's operating expenses and
will entitle the partner to an Investor's Manual and stock evaluation forms.
The remaining fifty dollars ($50.00) will be applied to the partner's capital
account. This initiation fee is in addition to the normal monthly dues.
- ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGES: The partnership shall have the ability
to
assess administrative fees as the partnership deems necessary or desirable.
VII. JOINTLY OWNED SHARES: There shall be no jointly
owned
shares.
VIII. EXPULSION: Failure of a partner to
fulfill the duties as previously defined for three consecutive months shall be deemed cause
for consideration for expulsion. A three-fourths (3/4) vote, as defined in
the partnership agreement, of the remaining partners shall be necessary for
expulsion. Such expulsion shall be deemed written notice of withdrawal in
accordance with paragraph 18 of the partnership agreement.
IX. AMENDMENT OF THESE BYLAWS: These Bylaws may be
amended at
any time by a three-fourths (3/4) vote, as defined in the partnership
agreement, of the partners. These Bylaws shall be construed in accordance
with the partnership agreement, and in any conflict, the partnership agreement
shall rule.
Evelyn Daniel, rev. Nov. 15, 1999