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ByLaws - Article I - Name and Scope of Activities
Section 1 - Name ByLaws
This organization is chartered by the American Urological Association, Inc. (AUA) as an affiliate and component part of AUA and of its affiliated entity, the American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. (AUAER). The name of this regional organization shall be the “New York Section of the American Urological Association, Inc.,” and its members shall be members also of both national entities.
 
Section 2 - Objectives and Purposes
The objectives and purposes of this organization shall be:
  1. To benefit the general public in the Greater New York region, by encouraging and maintaining the highest possible standards for urological education, practice and research;
  2. To provide an environment which supports education of all professionals involved in the practice urological medicine and surgery;
  3. To promote the publication of, and encourage contributions to, medical and scientific literature pertaining to urology;
  4. To encourage research, experimentation, investigation and analysis of diseases, abnormalities and other conditions of the genitourinary tract, their treatments and corrections, and to make the results known to physicians and the public; to develop, and assist in developing, scientific methods for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of such diseases; and to make the results known to physicians and the public, to benefit the general public;
  5. To promote fellowship and professional cooperation among the Section membership, and to advance their legitimate professional interests.
 
Section 3 - Geographical
The geographical boundaries of this Section shall be those stated in Article II, Section 2, of the AUA Bylaws (as revised and approved May 2006).
 
Section 4 - Limitations of Activities
  1. The Section shall not engage in business of any kind ordinarily carried out for profit. Nothing in the Section’s Articles of Incorporation nor in these Bylaws shall authorize the Section to, and the Section shall not in fact, enter into any transaction, carry out any activity, nor engage in any business for pecuniary purposes. Any income received by the Section shall be applied exclusively for the purposes of the Section as set forth herein, and no part thereof shall ever inure to the benefit of any private member or individual.
  2. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided by Internal Revenue Code section 501 (h)), or participating in, or intervening in (including the publication or distribution of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
 
Section 5 - Dissolution
Upon the termination or dissolution of the Section, any surplus of property or assets remaining after all of the debts and obligations of the Section have been paid and satisfied shall not either directly or indirectly inure to the benefit of any private member of the Section or individual, but all such property and assets shall be expended in their entirety, for the objects and purposes set forth in Section 2 hereinabove, within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding section of any future Federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the Federal Government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose.