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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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(3) |
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] |
