The articles of association of Bovenhaven Watersports Club, founded on 1 May 1954 in Kampen.
The percentage in article 5 is the percentage at the time it was set; the current membership fee is on the prices page.
Name, seat and duration.
The club bears the name Bovenhaven Watersports Club, was founded on 1 May 1954 and has its seat in Kampen.
The club, founded on the first of May nineteen fifty-four, is established for an indefinite period.
Object and the means of achieving it.
Article 2
1. The club’s object is the practice and promotion of watersports by its members.
2. It seeks to achieve this object by lawful means, including:
• holding meetings and gatherings, and running courses, talks and the like concerning watersports.
• holding races and outings.
• cooperating with other watersports clubs pursuing the same or a broadly similar object.
Article 3. Members
1. The club has:
a. members;
b. junior members;
c. honorary members;
2. Members of the club may be natural persons aged fifteen or over.
3. On joining the club, members also undertake to accept extraordinary membership of the N.N.W.B.
4. Junior members are natural persons who have not yet reached the age of fifteen. A junior member has the same rights and obligations towards the club as a member, except that they have no voting rights and cannot be appointed to the board. A junior member becomes a member as soon as they turn fifteen.
5. To become a junior member, one must apply to the board, which decides on the admission of a (junior) member. On applying, junior members must submit written consent from the person who has parental authority or guardianship over them.
6. Honorary members are those appointed as such by the general meeting, on the board’s proposal, in recognition of their exceptional service to the club.
7. Honorary members who are not also ordinary members have no voting rights.
Article 4. Membership
1. Membership ends:
a. on the death of the member;
b. by written notice from the member. Membership then ends at the close of the year in which notice was given.
c. by written notice from the board. Such notice may be given where the club cannot reasonably be expected to allow the membership to continue.
d. by expulsion. This is pronounced by the board only where a member acts contrary to the articles, rules or resolutions of the club, or harms the club unreasonably.
2. In the event of expulsion, the board notifies the member concerned of the decision by registered letter as soon as possible, stating the reasons.
The member may appeal in writing to the general meeting within one month of receiving that notice. The general meeting’s ruling is binding on the parties.
During the appeal period, and for as long as the appeal has not been decided, the member is suspended.
3. If membership ends during the financial year, the membership fee remains payable for the whole year.
4. The foregoing provisions of this article also apply to junior members and honorary members.
Article 5. Membership fee
Members must pay an annual membership fee, which is set each time by resolution of the general meeting at the annual meeting referred to below.
For junior members the fee is no more than 50% of that for ordinary members.
Article 6. Board
• The board consists of at least five and at most nine members. They are appointed by the general meeting from among the club’s members.
• At each annual general meeting at least one member retires, according to a rota drawn up by the board. Retiring board members are immediately eligible for re-election.
• The general meeting may at any time dismiss a board member or suspend them for up to three months, provided this is resolved by at least two-thirds of the votes cast at a general meeting. Board membership also ends when membership of the club ends.
• Where a vacancy arises on the board, the next general meeting appoints a successor.
• If one or more vacancies arise on the board, the remaining board members continue to form a competent body, unless the number of sitting board members is fewer than the number of vacancies.
In the latter case, the remaining board members must convene a general meeting within one month of the last vacancy arising, at which the vacancy or vacancies are filled.
Article 7
• The offices of secretary and treasurer are divided among the board members; the chair is elected directly to that office by the general meeting.
• Board decisions are taken by a majority of votes. If the votes are tied, a proposal is deemed rejected.
• Minutes are kept of the proceedings of board meetings and, once approved by the board meeting, are signed by the chair and the secretary.
Article 8. Duties and powers of the board
• The board is charged with managing the club.
• The club is represented in and out of court by the chair and secretary, the chair and treasurer, or the secretary and treasurer.
• Within the arrangement referred to in article 44, paragraph 2 of Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code, the board is authorised, with the consent of the general meeting, to purchase, dispose of or encumber registered property;
Article 9. Financial year
The financial year runs from 1 January to 1 January.
Article 10. General meetings
• Each year, no later than March, an ordinary general meeting is held, hereinafter referred to as the annual meeting.
• At this meeting the board presents its annual report and, submitting the necessary documents, renders account of its management during the past financial year and presents a budget for the current financial year.
• Each year, no later than at the meeting preceding the annual meeting, the general meeting appoints a committee of at least two members who may not be board members. The committee examines the board’s accounts for the past financial year, which must be made available to it at least two weeks before the annual meeting, and reports its findings to the annual meeting.
• The annual meeting also deals with proposals made by the board or submitted in writing to the board by at least five members ten days before the meeting. The same applies to the other general meetings.
Article 11
• The board also convenes a general meeting.
when it considers this desirable, or when it is required to do so by law or by the articles.
• The board must convene a general meeting if at least one tenth of the members request this in writing, stating the subjects to be discussed. In that case the meeting must be held within four weeks of the request being received. If it is not, the applicants may convene a general meeting themselves in the same way as the board convenes a general meeting.
Article 12
1. Members are notified and convened in writing by the board at least fourteen days before every general meeting.
2. The chair of the board — or, in their absence, one of the other board members — chairs the general meeting.
3. The board’s secretary keeps minutes of the proceedings of every general meeting. Article 7, paragraph 3 applies here, on the understanding that these minutes are approved by the general meeting.
4. Unless these articles provide otherwise, all resolutions are passed by a majority of the votes of the members present who are not suspended.
Every member has one vote. Voting by proxy is permitted, on the understanding that one person may not cast more than one proxy vote.
5. Votes on persons are held in writing; votes on matters are held orally, unless the chair decides otherwise or at least five of those present at the meeting request a written vote.
6. Blank votes and marked ballot papers are invalid.
7. If no majority is obtained in the first ballot when appointing persons, a second free ballot is held. If no majority is obtained again, a run-off is held between the two people who received the most votes in the second ballot.
8. If the votes on a matter are tied, the proposal is rejected.
If the votes on persons are tied, the matter is decided by lot.
9. The chair’s ruling at the meeting that a resolution has been passed is decisive. It also governs the content of a resolution passed, insofar as the vote concerned a proposal that was not recorded in writing.
10. If the correctness of the above ruling is disputed immediately after it is announced, a new vote is held where this is requested by a majority of the meeting or — if the first vote was not by roll call or in writing — by a single member entitled to vote. This new vote annuls the legal effects of the first.
Article 13. Amendment of the articles and dissolution
1. The club’s articles may be amended by resolution of the general meeting, provided that the notice convening the meeting states that an amendment is proposed. A copy of the proposal, setting out the amendment verbatim, must have been available for members to inspect in the club building from at least five days before the meeting until after it has ended.
2. A resolution to amend the articles requires a majority of at least two-thirds of the valid votes cast, at a meeting attended by at least two-thirds of the members.
3. If the required number of members is not present, a new general meeting is convened as soon as possible after the meeting and no later than one month afterwards. At that meeting a resolution may be passed regardless of the number of members present, by a majority of at least two-thirds of the valid votes cast.
4. An amendment to the articles does not take effect until a notarial deed has been drawn up.
Article 14
1. Everything set out in article 13, paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 applies to a resolution to dissolve the club.
2. The assets of the dissolved club are wound up by the board, unless the resolution to dissolve appoints one or more other persons as liquidator.
3. When resolving to dissolve, the general meeting decides how any surplus from the winding-up is to be applied, after hearing the funding bodies.
Article 15. Internal rules
1. The general meeting may adopt internal rules, which may not contain provisions conflicting with the law or with these articles.
Likewise, the board may adopt such rules to govern its own internal proceedings.
Internal rules may only be adopted, amended or repealed by a two-thirds majority of the votes present at a meeting of the body empowered to adopt them, and only if the notice convening that meeting stated the intention to do so.
2. The general meeting decides on everything not governed by the law, the articles or the internal rules.
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