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(A) |
Membership |
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(1) |
Ex Officio Members. President of the
University, Chancellor at UCLA, Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary of the Los Angeles
Division, and voting members of the Division's Executive Board. A member the Legislative
Assembly may not serve concurrently in more than one ex officio capacity, nor as
an ex officio member and an elected member. [Am 13 Apr. 82, 14 Mar 89] |
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(2) |
Representatives in the Legislative Assembly are elected in
accordance with Divisional Bylaw 150(C) to represent constituencies as follows: Each
one-department professional school and each department in other schools and colleges shall
elect from among its voting Senate members one representative for each 20 Senate members,
or major fraction thereof, except that the Departments of Aerospace Studies, Military
Studies, and Naval Studies shall be allocated one representative to the Legislative
Assembly among them. Otherwise, every academic department with 30 or fewer Senate members
is allocated at least one representative. The allocation of representatives to be chosen
by each Senate Electoral Committee is determined at the time of the election by the
Elections Commissioner. [See Appendix I, Scale of Representation in the Legislative
Assembly] [Am 27 May 86] |
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Each department may designate alternate representatives to the Legislative Assembly. In the uncontested absence or disability of the department representative, the alternate shall assume the rights and obligations of the representative until such a time as the representative can resume duties. [En 24 Apr 08] |
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(4) |
Administrative officers who hold Academic Senate membership
conferred by Regental Standing Order 105.1 shall elect a representative or representatives
from their number, according to the allocation formula set forth in (2) above. |
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(B) |
Term of Elected Members. The term
is three years beginning on September first. Terms of elected members are staggered. If an
elected member resigns or is unable to complete his or her term, the Secretary of the
Division is notified and an election of a replacement to complete the term is conducted by
the Senate Electoral Committee concerned within 15 days. Procedures for such elections are
determined by the Senate Electoral Committee in conformity with Senate Bylaw 55. [Am 14
Mar 89] |
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(C) |
Organization. The Chair, Vice
Chair and Secretary of the Division are Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary of the Legislative
Assembly. Consonant with the Bylaws of the Senate and the Division, the Legislative
Assembly may adopt rules of procedure to expedite its business. One third of the members,
exclusive of the President, is a quorum. Any existing vacancies reduce the total number of
members for purposes of a quorum. |
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(D) |
Rules of Order. All meetings of the
Legislative Assembly are governed by the procedures specified in Divisional Bylaw 135. A
roll call vote on any matter before the Legislative Assembly must be recorded in the
minutes upon the request of any Assembly member present. |
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(E) |
Meetings. Meetings of the Legislative
Assembly shall be scheduled as specified in Divisional Bylaw 130(A) and (B). |
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(F) |
Calls and Minutes. Calls and Minutes of
the Legislative Assembly are distributed to all members of the Division according to the
procedures prescribed in Divisional Bylaw 140. |
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(G) |
Privilege of the Floor |
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(1) |
Any member of the Academic Senate who is not a member of the
Legislative Assembly may attend its meetings and have the privilege of the floor,
including the right to make motions, but may not second motions or vote. Each
Inter-disciplinary Degree Program (IDP), and each Department not otherwise represented,
shall normally designate a Senate member to attend in this capacity. The Legislative
Assembly may invite to its meetings, and extend the privilege of the floor, to
administrative officers or such other persons as are concerned with the subject under
consideration. [Am 25 Apr 95] |
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(2) |
Students are invited to attend meetings of the Legislative
Assembly as observers on the following basis: All students who have been designated as
representatives to standing committees of the Division and whose names have been
appropriately filed in the Executive Office as stipulated in Divisional Bylaw 45(E), and
an additional five undergraduate students designated by the Commissioner of the Academic
Affairs Commission and five graduate students designated by the President of the Graduate
Students Association. Permission to attend meetings as observers is limited to those
students certified to the Chair of the Division by these student body officers at the
beginning of each quarter. Observers have the privilege of the floor, including the right
to make motions, but they may not second motions or vote. When necessary, the Chair may
convene an executive session from which students are excluded. |
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(H) |
Duties |
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(1) |
The Legislative Assembly is empowered to act in all matters
for the Los Angeles Division, subject to the provisions of Divisional Bylaws 120
(Modification of Legislation), 140 (Agenda and Minutes), 145 (Resolutions and Memorials),
and 155 (Mail Ballots). |
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(2) |
Members of the Legislative Assembly shall report regularly to
their constituents, preferably at Department meetings, on actions by and proposals before
the Legislative Assembly, and shall actively seek their input and advice. [En 25 Apr 95] |
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