PVCI- The PVCI handbook
The purpose of this booklet is to furnish each member with a copy of
our aims, objectives, and bylaws, while at the same time furnishing
some insight into the history of our organization. To new members
let me welcome you to the club. In my opinion, you have become part
of the finest varmint calling club in Arizona. There is no doubt
that organized groups such as ours play an important role in
establishing the policies which govern our outdoor activities. If we
are to succeed we must continue to stand together against oppressive
firearm legislation and other policies restricting the rights and
privileges we now enjoy in our outdoors.
President
Phoenix Varmint Callers, Inc.
BYLAWS OF
PHOENIX VARMINT CALLERS, INC.
ARTICLE I - NAME
This club shall be known as the Phoenix Varmint Callers, Inc.
ARTICLE II - AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The aims and objectives
of this club shall be as follows:
1. To promote predator calling as a sport.
2. To conserve wildlife through the taking of predators by sportsmen
with the use of mouth blown calls and to discourage the use of
electronic calling devices, except when physical disability
prohibits the use of a mouth blown call.
3. To discourage the indiscriminate use of poison in the control of
predator populations.
4. To inform and educate the public of the importance of maintaining
a continued balance of wildlife through sport hunting, also, proper
game management by the Arizona Game & Fish Department exclusively.
In furtherance of the foregoing aims and objectives this club may,
from time to time, do the following:
a) Promote and advance the cause of good sportsmanship,
conservation, and outdoor recreation through cooperation with
Federal, State, and local governmental agencies and through
education of the public, promotion of the cooperation and goodwill
of ranchers, farmers, sportsmen, and public and private land owners.
b) Actively support legislation which will further the stated aims
and objectives of this club of oppose legislation which will
adversely affect the stated aims and objectives of this club.
c) Make gifts, donations, or endowments, financial or material, to
other organizations organized and operating for the public welfare
and benefit in a public interest.
d) Cooperate with, without necessity of associating or affiliating
with other organizations
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ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIPS
1. Membership in this
club shall be open to all sportsmen interested in hunting,
photographing, and studying predators, and attracting wildlife
through the skills of calling.
2. To become a full member, a person shall:
a) Be 18 years of age or older
b) Express a genuine interest in the club’s membership.
c) Be recommended by one or more members.
d) A majority vote to accept by members present gives full
membership and all privileges.
e) Submit membership dues of $35.00 along with Membership
Application. Annual dues will be $35.00 for the first year and
annual renewals will be $25.00.
f) These same membership rules apply to any member that has let his
or her membership lapse for three months or more, with no exception
to this rule.
3. Upon payment of first year dues, each member shall receive a PVCI
patch, decal, member handbook, and call, and upon payment of first
year dues or renewal fees, each regular member shall receive a
membership card, become a member of the Phoenix Varmint Callers, and
receive the club’s official publication(s).
4. All members, except holders of junior and complimentary
memberships, shall have voting rights and the voting rights of all
voting members shall be equal, with each member having one (1) vote.
The property rights and interest of all members shall be equal.
5. Each member agrees to abide and be bound by the articles of
incorporation, by-laws, rules and regulations enacted pursuant
thereto, of this club, and any member who fails to comply therewith,
as determined by a majority of the Board of Directors, shall forfeit
his membership and any property rights or interests he may have in
this club or it’s property.
6. Any individual, upon initiating any type of membership in this
club does hereby relinquish all claims, existing or thereafter
arising, against this club for any injury, damage or claim of any
nature whatsoever, to him or his property.
7. A Phoenix Varmint Callers Junior Club, for youths who have not
reached their 18th birthday, may be formed at such time as approved
by the Phoenix Varmint Callers membership by a majority vote. Said
junior club must have an adult advisor. Said junior club shall elect
its own officers, conduct its own business and include the adult
leader and advisor in its executive committee. It shall also adopt a
set of bylaws which have been approved by PVCI Board of Directors.
Dues for the junior club shall be set by them and be payable to
their treasure for their use only. Said junior club shall also abide
by the existing bylaws of the PVCI. A full membership in the PVCI
must be held by a member of the youth family in order for him or her
to join the junior club.