The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held in the City of Philadelphia during the month of April on a day determined by the Board of Managers, at which a general election of Officers, Managers and Delegates, by ballot, shall take place. An election for Delegates to a Triennial Convention shall be held only at the Annual Meeting immediately preceding such Triennial Convention.

Nominations for Officers, Managers and, when applicable, Delegates made by persons other than the Nominations Committee, shall be signed by at least four (4) members of the Society and delivered to the office of the Secretary on or before March 1st immediately preceding the Annual Meeting. The Nominations Committee shall consider all such nominations and shall meet on or before March 15th immediately preceding the Annual Meeting. When practicable, an effort shall be made by the Nominations Committee to select for each group of Managers at least one member who is not more than thirty-five (35) years of age. No member of the Nominations Committee shall be a nominee for Officer or Manager endorsed by the Nominations Committee. The Nominations Committee shall publish the names of its nominees for election as Officers, Managers and Delegates with the notice of the meeting at which they are to be elected. Any nominations by four (4) members as aforesaid which are not included in the nominations made by the Nominations Committee shall be added to the nominations listed in the notice and shall appear on a printed ballot which shall be prepared by the Nominations Committee in appropriate form and placed at the seat of each member attending the Annual Meeting. In an election held at the Annual Meeting a majority of the ballots given for any Officer, Manager or Delegate shall constitute a choice, but if on the first ballot no person shall receive such a majority, then a further balloting shall take place in which a plurality of votes given for any person to be elected shall determine the choice.

Any member desiring to present a Resolution for consideration at the Annual Meeting shall submit it in writing endorsed by the signatures of three (3) additional members to the Resolutions Committee by delivering it to the office of the Secretary on or before March 1st immediately preceding the Annual Meeting. The Resolutions Committee shall consider all such Resolutions and shall meet on or before March 15th immediately preceding the Annual Meeting to prepare the Resolutions which it shall submit as a Committee before the Annual Meeting. Any resolution submitted to it before the March 1st deadline which the Resolutions Committee does not adopt shall also be presented at the Annual Meeting for the consideration of the membership, and the Resolutions Committee shall be afforded the opportunity at the Annual Meeting to state why it did not adopt such suggested Resolution. The proposer of such suggested Resolution shall have equal time to urge its adoption. Except for Resolutions deemed by the Presiding Officer to be incident to the conduct of the normal business of the Annual Meeting, only those Resolutions submitted by a member on or before the March 1st deadline and those Resolutions recommended by the Resolutions Committee shall be considered at the Annual Meeting. To be adopted, a Resolution shall receive a majority vote of those members attending the Annual Meeting.

The following shall be the order of business at the Annual Meeting of the Society:

1. Prayer by the Chaplain

2. Reading of the Minutes of the last meeting

3. Reports of Officers and Committees

4. Unfinished Business

5. New Business

6. Elections and appointment by the President of a Judge and two (2) Tellers to count the votes and declare the results.

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