Standing Rules

Board of Directors

Mailed votes must be received by the Secretary within a three week time limit in order to be counted. The “yes”, “no”, “abstention” and “non-voting” on all motions, are to be reported by name and published in the following Newsletter.

The Association shall maintain $1,000,000 General Liability Insurance.

The geographical area of the Association shall be divided into the Eastern, Mid-Western, Southwest and Southeast regions. The Annual Meeting/National Specialty and the Semi-Annual Meeting shall not be held in the same region in the same calendar year.

The Board of Directors shall establish advertisement cost for the Bulletin advertisement by majority vote at the first regular Board meeting after the Annual Meeting.

The American Bullmastiff Association is an association of individual members; therefore, the Board of Directors has no jurisdiction or responsibility for the action or non-action of a regional club. However, the Board may withhold approval for Association sponsored events to be hosted by a regional club as the Board deems necessary.

It is the policy of the Board of Directors to equitably rotate the approval to host Association sponsored regional events among regional clubs, in the Association’s specialty areas, if more than one regional club exists in that specialty area.

The ABA is the sole national representative of the breed. Any correspondence regarding ABA business from ABA members to the Board, its committees and any or all of the members thereof, that contains defamatory, personally insulting and/or rude uncivil material will be returned to the sender and considered not received.

A file copy shall be sent to the Secretary of all correspondence received or sent in the name of the Association by Board members.