5.           ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

5.1             Regular meetings.  The Association shall meet at least twice each year to transact business.  Association meetings shall take place within 31 days of 1 October and 1 April annually.  Any business may be considered at a regular meeting without the business having been specified in the meeting notice.

5.2             Special meetings.  The President or the Board may call a special meeting of the Association.  The Secretary may call a special meeting upon presentation to the Board of a written request signed by 25 percent of Association members. Such requests shall state the purpose of the meeting.  Unless requested by a majority of Association members, a special meeting need not be called to consider any matter that is substantially the same as a matter voted on at any Association meeting held during the preceding 12 months.

5.3         Place of meetings.  Association meetings may be held at any location within Anne Arundel County, Maryland that the Board selects.

5.4              Notice of meetings.

5.4.1         Secretary to give notice.  Not less than ten nor more than thirty days before each Association meeting, the Secretary shall give written notice of the meeting to each member of the Association and Board.

5.4.2         Contents of notice.  The notice shall state the time, place and -- to the extent feasible -- the purpose of the meeting.

5.4.3         Delivery of notice.  Notice is given to an Association member when it is personally delivered or mailed to the address that appears on Primary School records.

5.5            Quorum; voting.

5.5.1       Quorum.  The presence in person or by proxy of 25 percent of the Association members in good standing constitutes a quorum.

5.5.2     Majority rules.  A majority of all the votes cast at an Association meeting at which a quorum is present is sufficient to approve any matter that properly comes before the meeting except revisions of these Bylaws or the corporate Charter.

5.6          One vote.  Each Association member in good standing is entitled to one vote.

5.7        Manner of voting; proxies.  An Association member may vote either in person or by written proxy signed by the member or the members attorney-in-fact.  The Association may utilize any method of voting approved by the Board and not prohibited by law.

5.8         Association members right to inspect.  Any Association member may inspect and copy during usual business hours these Bylaws or minutes of Association or Board meetings.