Amendment Log

Date	Description
September 17, 2006	Added Article Ⅷ, Section 2 of the By-Laws. Purpose is to provide Brothers with a timeline of when amendments to the By-Laws were made, what was changed, and what the purpose of the change is.
	Changed every instance of Alumni Archives Committee to Alumni Relations Committee. Purpose is to reflect the recent renaming of the Alumni Archives Committee to the Alumni Relations Committee.
	Added the word “majority” to Section Ⅱ.1.1 of the Attendance Policy. Purpose is to keep wording consistent with the rest of the By-Laws.
	Added Section Ⅱ.1.4 to the Attendance Policy. Purpose is to allow events before the second regular business meeting to be made mandatory that would normally be mandatory, that must occur before the second regular business meeting due to scheduling. For example; MDOT cleanup, Fall Lock-In, and Rushes.
	Added Section Ⅱ.1.5 to the Attendance Policy. Purpose is to allow for mandatory weekends to be created and enforced. Examples: mandatory sales weekends, mandatory ushering weekends, etc.
	Added Section Ⅱ.2.3 to the Attendance Policy. Purpose is to help distribute the responsibilities of program sales, and ushering evenly among the Brotherhood.
	Added Section Ⅱ.2.4 to the Attendance Policy. Purpose is to set a deadline for when mandatory Music and Sales Committee events must be completed by as well as to make enforcing the mandatory minimum easier. Date was chosen to give the Music and Sales Committee chairs sufficient time to work with the Secretary and Treasurer to determine and assess any necessary fines.
October 15, 2006	Changed the wording of Article Ⅹ, Section 1.1.2 of the By-Laws from “The Treasurer shall be an ex officio member of the committee, and shall only have a vote on a committee issue in case of a tie.” to read: “As an ex officio member of the committee, the Treasurer shall only have a vote on a committee issue in case of a tie.” This change, along with the following change remove an inconsistency of where ex officio committee membership is assigned to an officer. The proper location for this assignment is under the section that deals with the duties of the officer affected by the membership.
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 2.4.8 of the By-Laws to read: “The Treasurer shall be an ex officio member of the Finance and Properties committees.” This change locates the declaration of ex officio committee membership to its proper location as well as declares the additional ex officio membership of the recently revived Properties Committee.
	Removed Article Ⅴ, Section 2.3.5 of the By-Laws and renumbered the following sections accordingly. The removed section read: “The Secretary, in conjunction with the Treasurer, shall supervise the ordering of all official items pertaining to the business of Zeta Chapter, except those purchased from the National Organization.” This changed reflects the reviving of the Properties Committee, and allows it to perform its prescribed function.
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 2.4.6 of the By-Laws. Section reads: “The Secretary shall be an ex officio member of the Properties Committee.” This change reflects the revival of the Properties Committee and insures that the activities of the committee are overseen by a chapter officer.
November 12, 2006	Added “gender” to Article Ⅲ, Section 2.2 of the By-Laws. Changed the “and/or” between the last two items in the list to an exclusive “or” for grammatical correctness. The new section now reads: “Zeta Chapter shall not deny membership to anyone for reason of race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, creed, handicaps, age, sex, or gender.” The purpose of this change is to ensure that all gender variant (transgender, intersex, etc.) students are covered in the anti-discrimination policy.
December 10, 2006	Added “Pledge Rush” to the list of Pledging related Individual Mandatory events in Section 2.5.1 of the Attendance Policy to ensure that stating the event to be mandatory is not forgotten by the Pledgemaster during the Pledging Process.
January 18, 2009	Added Article Ⅲ, Section 3.1.2.4 of the By-Laws. Section reads: “Due to extenuating circumstances, if a pledge feels the need to become a Special Active pledge, they may do so by petitioning the Executive Board as described in Sec. 3.1.2.1.” This change is to accommodate pledges with critical, unknown time requirements (such as the care of a child).
January 16, 2011	Revised Article Ⅲ, Section 6.1.1 of the By-Laws to: “Voting on all business, with the exception of the election of officers and acceptance of new members shall be by a show of hands unless the President has specified otherwise or a member…” to account for Pledging Policy being separated from the By-Laws.
	Revised Article Ⅲ, Section 6.1.2 of the By-Laws to: “Voting for the election of officers and acceptance of new members vote shall be by secret, written ballot.” to account for Pledging Policy being separated from the By-Laws.
	Revised Article Ⅲ, Section 6.5 of the By-Laws to: “The President of Zeta Chapter shall be allowed to cast a vote on the offering of bids, the acceptance of new members, amendments to the Chapter By-Laws, and the approval of nominees to the Brothers Court. On all other matters, the President of Zeta Chapter shall not vote unless there is a tie vote, in which case he/she shall act as the tie breaking vote.” to account for Pledging Policy being separated from the By-Laws.
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 5.8.1 of the By-Laws: “The Assistant Pledgemaster will ascend to Pledgemaster when the position is vacated. A new Assistant Pledgemaster will be elected.”
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 5.8.2 of the By-Laws: “If no Assistant Pledgemaster exists, a Pledgemaster will be elected according to the qualification and guidelines for electing an Assistant Pledgemaster, with the nominations open for two (2) weeks prior to elections.”
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 5.8.3 of the By-Laws: “If practical, nominations for a new Assistant Pledgemaster shall be conducted by the second (2nd) week of the semester and election of the Assistant Pledgemaster shall be held by the fifth (5th) week of the semester.”
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 5.7.1 of the By-Laws: “If the position of Pledgemaster is vacated, the Assistant Pledgemaster ascends to Pledgemaster. A new Assistant Pledgemaster is elected.”
	Added Article Ⅴ, Section 5.7.2 of the By-Laws: “If the positions of both Pledgemaster and Assistant Pledgemaster are vacant, there must be an election for each.”
	Struck Article Ⅳ from the By-Laws and renumbered all subsequent articles accordingly.
September 7, 2013	Changed Article Ⅶ, Section 2.1 of the By-Laws to read, “All amendments made to these Chapter By-Laws and their appendices, with the exception of spelling and grammatical corrections that do not alter the meaning, will be recorded in a log and must include the following:”. The purpose is to reduce needless entries in the amendment log. Such trivial amendments must still go through the established approval process.
	Changed Article Ⅲ, Section 5.4 of the By-Laws from, “…bearing the name and symbols…” to: “…bearing the name and/or symbols…” to be more general as to the items that would be taken back.
	Struck Article Ⅲ, Section 7.1 of the By-Laws and replaced it with, “All voting members of Zeta Chapter shall be required to pay dues in accordance with the Treasurer’s Policy of Zeta Chapter,” so that the policies would be contained within one policy.
	Struck the second sentence of Article Ⅲ, Section 7.2 of the By-Laws: “All voting members of Zeta Chapter shall be required to pay dues in accordance with the Treasurer’s Policy of Zeta Chapter,” to eliminate redundancy (material already covered in Article Ⅲ, Section 7.1).
	Changed Article Ⅳ, Section 5.6 of the By-Laws from, “…by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all the eligible voting members present at an official meeting,” to: “…by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Active membership.” to eliminate a loophole in numerical threshold for officer removal: ⅔ of regular business meeting quorum (½) is only ⅓ of the total Active membership.
	Removed Article Ⅳ, Section 5.8 of the By-Laws and its subsections due to redundancy.
	Struck Article Ⅳ, Section 6.4 of the By-Laws and replaced it with, “A Member-At-Large shall be responsible for all National correspondence, with the cooperation of the Executive Committee. The Member-At-Large shall have a co-representative. The two (2) representatives shall be Chapter representatives to the Legislative Council and the National Executive Committee,” to update the reference to the “National Committee”.
	Struck Article Ⅳ, Section 6.6 of the By-Laws and replaced it with, “Any Active member may request the President to make the appointment of a Parliamentarian. The Parliamentarian shall be responsible for interpretation and advice on the correct procedures for conducting a business meeting,” to clarify the Parliamentarian’s position and appointment.
	Struck Article Ⅴ, Section 2.5 of the By-Lawsand replaced it with, “All motions, at the President's discretion, must be submitted in writing. The document shall provide the names of the person making the motion, the person seconding the motion, the actual motion itself, and the results of the ensuing vote.” to generalize the idea of a motion slip and specify that it must include the motion.
	Struck Article Ⅴ, Section 2.6 of the By-Lawsand replaced it with, “Policies”, added subsection 1 to Ⅴ.2.6: “Definition: A policy is a written document that places binding restrictions on the activities of the members of Zeta Chapter.”, added subsection 2 to Article Ⅴ, Section 2.6: “The establishment or abolishment of a policy must be approved by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Active membership.”, and added subsection 3 to Article Ⅴ, Section 2.6: “All policies must contain criteria by which they may be modified,” to define policies and procedures for adding or updating them.
	Changed Article Ⅵ, Section 2.4 of the By-Laws from, “…The decision of the Board of Trustees is final for all time,” to: “…The decision of the Board of Trustees shall supersede that of the Brothers Court and is final for all time,” to clarify that the Board of Trustees’ decision supersedes that of Zeta Chapter.
	Changed Article Ⅵ, Section 4 of the By-Laws from, “If found in contempt of Court, appropriate actions will be taken by the Court,” to: “If a member is found in contempt of Court, appropriate actions will be taken by the Court,” in order to clarify who the action is taken against.
	Inserted “Tardy — A tardy is defined as being at least 15 minutes late to an event and is determined at the discretion of the Committee Chair in charge of the event or obligation,” in Article Ⅰ of the Attendance Policy and re-lettered the subsequent sections accordingly. This was added in order to discourage Brothers from being late, even if they didn’t miss more than one-third of an event.
	Changed Article Ⅰ, Section 6 of the Attendance Policy from, “An absence is defined as missing at least ⅓ of an event, and is determined at the discretion of the Committee Chair in charge of the event or obligation,” to: “An absence shall be accrued by either (1) missing at least one-third (⅓) of an event at the discretion of the Committee Chair or (2) for each three tardies accrued by a member.” This was added so that there was an appropriate action to take for multiple tardies.
	Added “Series of Events — A series of events is a group of multiple events with a similar theme and specified attendance requirements.” to Article Ⅰ of the Attendance Policy to clarify what a “series of events” was.
	Changed Article Ⅱ, Section 1.5 of the Attendance Policy from, “A series of events or part of a series of events may be made group mandatory…” to: “A series of events may be made group mandatory…” This was changed due to the fact that any part of a series is technically a series.
	Changed Article Ⅱ, Section 5.1 of the Attendance Policy to: “The Closed Smoker, Pledge Rush, and Initiations will be Mandatory Individual Events as scheduled by the Pledgemaster…” to generalize and order events.
	Changed Article Ⅸ, Section 1 of the Treasurer’s Policy from, “…six (6) month securities should be purchased no later than April 15th,” to, “…six (6) month securities should be purchased no later than March 15th.” This was to ensure that funds in six month securities would be available at the beginning of the school year.
	Struck “Summer” from Article Ⅸ, Section 3 of the Treasurer’s Policy so that the section would apply to all investments, and not just those made in summer.
	Changed Article Ⅸ, Section 6.3 of the Treasurer’s Policy from, “Simple majority of the Brotherhood can purchase all others investments,” to: “Two-thirds (⅔) majority of the Brotherhood can purchase all other investments,” because investments of this magnitude are important enough to merit a ⅔ majority vote.
	Struck Article Ⅲ, Section 2.2 of the By-Laws and replaced it with, “In compliance with Michigan Technological University’s Board of Control Equal Opportunity Policy effective February 24, 2011, Mu Beta Psi — Zeta Chapter will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, height, weight, genetic information, or marital status. In addition, Mu Beta Psi — Zeta Chapter is committed to the policy of not discriminating against disabled individuals and veterans.” in order to comply with university requirements for a registered student organization.
October 13, 2013	Changed Article Ⅲ, Section 3.1.2.1.4 of the By-Laws to: “…Special Active Initiations of Zeta Chapter…” to clarify events.
January 25, 2015	Added to Article Ⅲ, Section 3.1.1.1 of the By-Laws: “…In extenuating circumstances the Executive Committee may suspend this requirement for individual members by a majority vote,” so that local Brothers participating in the chapter and making progress in their own lives are not denied the rights of an active simply due to enrollment status.

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