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ARTICLE VIII

Committees and Delegates

Sec. 1. Committees and delegates shall be appointed in accordance with Article XVII of the IBEW Constitution.

Sec. 2. The delegates and alternates to the International Convention shall be nominated and elected in accordance with the nomination and secret ballot election procedure, as set forth in these bylaws and Article II, Section 10 of the IBEW Constitution.

Sec. 3. The Business Manager shall, by virtue of the office, serve as a delegate to the International Convention. No candidate for office of Business Manager may be nominated for a Delegate at Large seat at the Convention in addition to being nominated for the office of Business Manager.

Sec. 3. Where a local union has provided for the Business Manager to be a delegate to the International Convention by virtue of the office, it must be included here. Where the local union has both a President and a Business Manager and the Local is entitled to three (3) or more delegates, both the President and the Business Manager as the local union decides, may be delegates by virtue of their offices. However, no more than two (2) officers, regardless of the number of delegates to which the local union is entitled, may have such status. Only the Business Manager (President-Acting Business Manager) and President (in this order) may be delegates to the International Convention, by virtue of their office(s). No officer may be entitled to serve as an alternate delegate by virtue of his/her office.

When an officer, after proper action by the local union, also serves as a delegate to the International Convention, by virtue of the office, the notice of nominations and election and ballot must provide that the candidates are running for both positions (i.e. Business Manager and Delegate to the International Convention).

In the event the office so affected is vacated and filled in accordance with the Constitution, the individual filling the un-expired term does not automatically assume the duties of delegate to the International Convention. In these cases, an election must be held to fill the delegate position. The appointed individual shall be a candidate for delegate in any such election.