§ 27-25-7 - Location of office and meetings – Communications to members – Grievance procedures. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 27-25-7

   § 27-25-7  Location of office and meetings– Communications to members – Grievance procedures. – (a) The principal office of any domestic society shall be located in thisstate. The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held in any state,district, province, or territory in which the society has at least onesubordinate lodge, or in any other location determined by the supreme governingbody, and all business transacted at the meetings shall be as valid in allrespects as if the meetings were held in this state. The minutes of theproceedings of the supreme governing body and of the board of directors shallbe in the English language.

   (b) A society may provide in its laws for an officialpublication in which any notice, report, or statement required by law to begiven to members, including notice of election, may be published. The requiredreports, notices, and statements shall be printed conspicuously in thepublication. If the records of a society show that two (2) or more members havethe same mailing address, an official publication mailed to one member isdeemed to be mailed to all members at the same address unless a member requestsa separate copy.

   (c) Not later than June 1 of each year, a synopsis of thesociety's annual statement providing an explanation of the facts concerning thecondition of the society disclosed in the statement shall be printed and mailedto each benefit member of the society or, in lieu of that, the synopsis may bepublished in the society's official publication.

   (d) A society may provide in its laws or rules for grievanceor complaint procedures for members.