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Chapter 1. Preamble

The techniques of thermography are more and more employed in medicine for diagnostic. In a great number of countries, not only in Europe, there it have been created scientific societies which have the aim to promovate the research and interdisciplinary collaboration in this field.

Chapter 2. Name and juridical form of organization

Art. 1 The name of organization is SRT (Romanian Society of Termography)

Art. 2 The headquarter is in Campina, str. Serg. Maj. Erou Grigore Nicolae, nr. 5.

Art. 3 SRT is an autonomic medical society, non-profit, nongovernmental, and nonpolitical. SRT has scientific, professional and educational purposes.

Chapter 3. Aims of the society

The general aim of society is to promovate the use of thermography in field of medicine for the general benefit of population. SRT has the following aimes:

-         to promovate the spread of scientific information in the field of thermography;

-         to organize experience changes in Romania and abroad; to initiate relations of collaboration with organizations from Romania and abroad;

-         to promovate research and the development in the field of tomography and publishing the results of scientific researches;

-         to organize courses, symposiums, conferences and congresses in this field;

-         to edit and spread information in this specialty (magazines, guides, notebooks, etc.);

-         to affiliate to similar abroad organizations and represent the interests of his members to another international organizations which have the same aims.

Chapter 5. Relations with another societies and institutions of state.

Art 6. The society wants to create and represent a frame for the persons who are interested to converge and collaborate for representing their interests at national and international level and to develop the method.

Chapter 6. Membership

Art. 8. The members of SRT are physical or juridical persons who are interested to fulfill the aims of society.

Art 9. The society has the following types of members:

a)     Charter members;

b)    Ordinary members;

c)     Associated members: nonmedical persons involved in termographyc diagnostic (biologists, engineers, physicians). For the status of associated members is necessary to fill up a form through which the applicant have to clarify the relations to the field of thermography and the commitment financial duties towards society. The Form is discuss by the Board of Directors.

d)    Correspondent members: medical and nonmedical persons from abroad who maintain scientific and/or didactical relations with the society. The status of correspondent member is obtain through the positive vote of the simple majority of The Board of Directors.

e)     Honourable members;

f)      Promoter members;

g)     Charter additions.

Part II. Termination of membership

Art. 10. Membership terminates by resignation or exclusion.

Art. 11. A member can terminate his status writing about the intention to the Board of Directors until the end of the year.

Art. 12. The members who haven’t paid their financial duties until the 1^st of July would be adjourned and lose the right to vote until the moment of fulfilling their financial duties.

Art. 13. The members who haven’t fulfilled their financial duties for two years and have knowledge about the fact would be exclude from society.

Art. 14. Exclusion of a member from society following another reasons then those of unfulfilling the financial duties is made through the vote of a majority of 2/3 from the Board of Directors.

Part IV The duties of members

Art. 16. The members of society have the following duties:

a)     to practice thermography legally;

b)    not to be in opposition with the aims of society with regards to behavior and practice;

c)     to fulfill their financial duties in time.

Chapter 7. Organs of society

Art. 17. SRT is an organization with a national character which has the possibility to found national quarters.

Art. 18. SRT is run by:

-         The General Assembly;

-         The Board of Directors.

Art. 20. In case of, as a exceptional gathering of members, there is an attendance less then 50%+1 and the reasons for the urgent decision, there will be a need for a second gathering through e-mail and mass media, to another time, in less then 15 days from the first gathering. In this case, the General Assembly is a statutory one whatever will be the number of members.

Art. 21. The duties of the General Assembly:

a)     to elect the Board of Directors which is made by: a president, a secretary, a treasurer, three directory vice-presidents of departments and four members.

b)    the approval of changes and additions in the status of society;

c)     the approval of the activity plan of Society in professional, research and educational fields;

d)    to analyze and approve the activity of The Board of Directors,

e)     the decisions for the amount of financial duties;

f)      to analyze and approve the accounting audit of society.

Art. 22. The Board of Directors of Society has an executive action and is gathering by necessities. The gathering can be proposed by the president himself, by the three vice-presidents together or by at least 1/5 members of society.

Art. 23. The Board of Directors is made by 11 members: a president, a secretary, a treasurer, 3 directory vice-presidents of departments and 4 members.

Art. 24. All the members of The Board of Directors are elected through direct or no direct vote with a simple majority, by the General Assembly of members.

Art. 25. The executive president who is about to terminate automatically became honor president of society. He remain as a member until the next president will terminate..

Art. 28. The departmental organization. There are departments which belong to different medical specialties in this organization. The departments:

-         education, research and the continued medical education;

-         professional and medical apparatuses;

-         organizational, administrative and public relationships.

Each department is run by a directory who is vice-president of society also. Depending on the development of the techniques, there are many possibilities to found make another departments. The new departments will bring a larger number of members from The Board of Directors with a new vice-president for the new department.