TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I    NAME AND PURPOSE
Section 1     Name
Section 2     Purpose
Section 3     Field of Interest

ARTICLE II   BYLAWS
Section 1   Bylaws Established
Section 2   Bylaw Changes

ARTICLE III  MEMBERSHIP OF COUNCIL
Section 1     Council and Member Societies
Section 2     New Member Societies
Section 3     Removal of Member Societies
Section 4     Officers of Council AdCom
Section 5     Voting Members of Council AdCom
Section 6     IEEE Membership Requirement
Section 7     Terms of Member Society Representatives
Section 8     Vacancies of Member Society Representatives
Section 9     Non-Voting Ex-Officio Members of Council AdCom
Section 10    Liaison Representatives

ARTICLE IV  ELECTION AND APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
Section 1     Election of Officers
Section 2     Method of Election
Section 3     Filling of Council Office Vacancies

ARTICLE V  POWERS, PRIVILEGES, AND DUTIES
Section 1     Duties of Representatives
Section 2     Duties of Officers and Members
Section 3     Appointment of Secretary, Editors, Committee Chairpersons
Section 4     Duties of Council President
Section 5     Establishment of Standing Committees
Section 6     Duties of Officers
Section 7     Duties of Secretary
Section 8     Duties of Vice President for Finances
Section 9     Council Officer’s Terms of Office
Section 10     Expenditures and Debts
Section 11   Honoraria and Travel Expenses

ARTICLE VI  FINANCIAL SUPPORT & EXPENDITURES
Section 1     Regular Income
Section 2     Additional Revenues
Section 3     Prohibited Expenditures

ARTICLE VII  MEETINGS
Section 1    Meetings
Section 2   Annual Meeting
Section 3     Quorum and Conduct of Business
Section 4     Alternate Representatives
Section 5     Lack of Quorum

ARTICLE VIII  PUBLICATIONS
Section 1     Publication Policies
Section 2     Publication of Council Periodicals
Section 3     Appointment of Associate and Guest Editors

ARTICLE IX  CONFERENCES AND TECHNICAL MEETINGS
Section 1      Meetings Policies
Section 2     Time and Locations of Meetings

ARTICLE X  RECALL
Section 1     Recall of Member Society Representatives
Section 2     Recall of Voting Procedures

ARTICLE XI  AMENDMENTS
Section 1     Adoption and Amendment of Constitution
Section 2     Adoption and Amendment of Bylaws
Section 3     Precedence of IEEE Constitution, Bylaws, and Policies
Section 4     Effective Date of Constitution

Constitution Approved by TAB on 14 November 1998; revised in November 2000 and approved by the then TAB Chairman, Robert Dent, per e-mail message of October 17, 2000 from Rosanne Loyal, On behalf of Mary Ward-Callan, TAB Secretary: “All of the revisions submitted to the Constitution are of an administrative nature. Therefore, they have been approved by Mr. Robert Dent, in accordance with the authority delegated to him as TAB Chairman by the IEEE Board of Directors and the Technical Activities Board.”

The Constitution contains the field of interest statement. The Policies & Procedures document at the end of this document contains a more detailed field of interest statement.