ARTICLE III: MEMBERS
Section 1 Meeting. The annual meeting of the members shall be held on the first Wednesday in the month of March in each year beginning in 2005, at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of electing directors if any are to be elected and for the transaction or such other business as may come before the meeting. If the day fixed for the annual meeting shall be a legal holiday in the state of Washington, the meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day. Amended April 14, 2018 by a majority vote of the board of directors (see issue manager for record of vote): The annual meeting of the members shall be held in the 1st quarter in each year at a place and time to be determined by the board for the purpose of electing directors if any are to be elected and for the transaction or such other business as may come before the meeting. If the annual meeting is not held on the day designated herein, the board of directors shall cause a special meeting of members to be held as soon thereafter as may be convenient to elect directors.
Section 2. Special Meetings. Unless otherwise prescribed by statute, special meetings of the members may be called for any purpose or purposes by the president or by the board of directors and shall be called by the secretary at the written request of any director or members holding not less than one tenth of all votes of the members.
Section 3. Place of Meeting. The annual meeting or special meetings of the members shall be held at such place within King County, Washington, as the board of directors may from time to time designate.
Section 4. Notice of Meetings. Written notice stating the place, day and hour of a meeting of members and, in case of a special meeting of members the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered to each member entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten (10) days and not more than fifty (50) days before the meeting, either personally or by mail, by the secretary or by the person or persons authorized to call meetings of members. If written notice is placed in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to a member at the member's address as it appears in the records of the corporation, notice shall be deemed to have been delivered to the member.
Section 5. Quorum. The presence in person or by proxy of holders of one-fifth of the votes of the members shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of members. If a quorum is present, a majority affirmative vote of the members present and entitled to vote shall be the act of the members unless the vote of a greater number or voting by classes is required by law, the articles of incorporation or these bylaws.
Section 6. Method of Voting. The holder of a membership entitled to vote may vote in person or by mail or by proxy. No right to cumulate votes at the election of directors shall exist. Each membership shall have one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of membership.
Section 7. Voting by Certain Members. The votes of memberships held by a corporation, domestic or foreign, may be voted by such officer, agent or proxy as the bylaws of such corporation may prescribe, or in the absence of such provision, as the board of directors of such corporation may determine. A certified copy of a resolution adopted by such directors shall be conclusive as to their action.The votes of memberships which are held by dministrators, executors, guardians or conservators may be voted by them either in person or by proxy, without a transfer of such memberships into their names. The votes of memberships which are held by trustee shall be entitled to vote memberships held by him without a transfer of such memberships into his name. The votes of memberships which are held by receivers may be voted by such receivers, and memberships under the control of a receiver may be voted by the receiver without the transfer thereof into his name if authority to do so is contained in an appropriate order of the court by which such receiver was appointed.
Section 8. Informal Action by Members or Directors. Any action required to be taken at a meeting of the membership of directors or any other action which may be taken at a meeting of the membership of directors may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing setting forth the action so taken shall be signed by all the members of directors entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.