A By-Law Relating Generally to the Conduct of the Affairs of 
Pembroke and District Association for Community Living

WHEREAS the Association was incorporated by Letters Patent issued by the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario on the 26th day of April, 1961, and amended by Supplementary Letters Patent dated the 12th day of October, 1972 and the 25th day of February, 1977, 2003.

AND WHEREAS the Association wishes to revise its by-law respecting the conduct of the affairs of the Association:

BE IN ENACTED as a by-law of the Community Living Upper Ottawa Valley (the "Association") as follows:

1. INTERPRETATION

1.1. In this by-law and all other by-laws and resolutions of the Association, unless the context otherwise requires:

a) the singular includes the plural;

b) the masculine gender includes the feminine;

c) "Association" means Community Living Upper Ottawa Valley (or such other name as the Association may legally adopt);

d) "Board" means the board of directors of the Association;

e) "Corporations Act" means the Corporations Act, RSO 1980, Chapter 89, and any statute amending or enacted in substitution therefore, from time to time;

f) "Documents" includes deeds, mortgages, charges, conveyances, transfers and assignments of property, real or personal, immoveable or moveable, agreements, releases, receipts, and discharges for the payment of money or other obligations, conveyances, transfers and assignments of shares, bonds, debentures or other securities and all paper writings;

g) "Executive Officers" means the persons who hold the offices enumerated in Section 10.1;

h) "Letters Patent" means the letters patent incorporating the Association as from time to time amended and supplemented by supplementary letters patent;

i) "Past President" means the person whose term of office as President has most recently expired and who is willing to serve as such.

1.2 All terms defined in the Corporations Act have the same meanings in this by-law and all other by-laws and resolutions of the Association.

2. HEAD OFFICE

The head office of the Association shall be in the City of Pembroke, in the County of Renfrew, in the Province of Ontario; and at such place therein as the Board may from time to time determine.

3. GEOGRAPHIC AREA SERVED

The Association serves Renfrew County and/or parts thereof.

4. SEAL

The corporate seal of the Association shall be in the form impressed hereon.

5. FINANCIAL YEAR

The financial year of the Association shall terminate on the 31st day of March in each year or on such other date as the Board may from time to time by resolution determine.

6. MEMBERSHIP IN THE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING

The Association shall be a member of the Ontario Association for Community Living

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