Purpose The purpose of The MIT Pilotta Club, hereafter referred to as Pilotech, is to promote the game of pilotta within MIT. To accomplish this goal, Pilotech organizes tournaments, practice sessions, lectures, and other events, where members and guests can learn and enjoy pilotta. The game of pilotta has become the most famous card game in Cyprus, all Balcan countries, and France because it is based on logic and partner communication. It is played in a pair-against-pair fashion.
Membership Pilotech is an MIT group. All members of the MIT community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni and their families are eligible to become voting members.
A person must attend two meeting a term in order to be a member. To become a voting member of Pilotech, a person must attend four meetings per term. There are no dues or obligations with regular membership. A person will remain a member so long as they attend at least two meetings a term.
At all times at least 5 or 50% MIT students. Pilotech will not discriminate based on any characteristic listed in MIT's NonDiscrimination Statement.
Meetings There will be three types of meetings: practices, events, and councils.
Practices will be held on a weekly basis during the academic year, including IAP. Practices will take place weekly at a prearranged location unless otherwise decided at a council.
Councils will be held on a monthly basis during the academic year, including IAP. Unless stated otherwise, a decision will require more votes in favor than opposed, and at least three votes in favor.
Events will be held at the discretion of Pilotech. Any decision affecting Pilotech must be made at a council or by a committee granted in the bylaws the jurisdiction to make such a decision.
Councils must be announced to the club a week in advance, unless the president and treasurer agree that there is an urgent matter, in which case a decision will require twice as many votes one way in favor as opposed, and no less than five in favor; an emergency council may not decide on any matters other than those for which it is called.
Officers and Duties Pilotech will have a president who will call and preside over meetings, who will represent the club to the Institute and to the world, and who will carry out any other duties required by the constitution or by the bylaws.
Pilotech will have a vice president, who will act as the president if the president is unable, for such period as instructed by the president.
Pilotech will have a treasurer who will handle and keep track of the money of Pilotech, who will not be the president, and who will carry out any other duties required by the constitution or by the bylaws. The treasurer will preside over meetings if the president and vice president are unable.
The above officer with two additional members will constitute the Pilotech Executive Committee (PEC). A council may create a committee and specify how its members are to selected. The members or the committee will be selected by a council, or appointed by the president and approved by a council, or appointed by the treasurer and approved by a council, the manner being chosen by the council creating the committee; however, any committee whose members are appointed by the treasurer must be financial in nature. One member of the committee will be the chair of the committee, and will be an officer. The council will add a section to the bylaws to govern the committee.
Elections The PEC will be elected in the first council of October, and all offices filled must be filled by MIT students. Elections will be by majority vote of the voting members present, and will be taken via secret ballot. All terms of office are for a period of one year.
Removal and/or Replacement of Officers If there is no treasurer, the president will appoint one, who must be approved by the next council. If there is no president, the treasurer will appoint one, who must be approved by the next council.
An officer may be removed by a petition with the names and signatures of at least one and a half times as many voting members of Pilotech as voted for the officer, or, in the case of an appointed officer, by at least one and a half times as many voting members of the Club as voted to approve the officer.
Constitutional Amendments and Bylaws This constitution and its bylaws can be amended at any council. Notice of a proposed change to this constitution or its bylaws must be given one week prior to the amendment, except that a council may create a committee and add an appropriate section to the bylaws (as required in section 4 paragraph 3) without an announcement. Any amendment to this constitution must be approved by three times as many votes as disapprove, and must be approved by five votes. An amendment to the bylaws must be approved by twice as many votes as disapprove, and must be approved by five votes.
Validity This constitution will supersede all previous constitutions of Pilotech. It shall take effect upon a decision of a meeting of at least four members with three times as many votes in favor as opposed, and will be submitted to Pilotech at least a week in advance, in accordance with the procedure for amendment outlined in the previous constitution.
God Clause The MIT Pilotta Club agrees to abide by the rules and regulations of the Association of Student Activities, its executive committee, and the finance board. This constitution, amendments to it, and the by-laws of this organization shall be subject to review by the ASA Executive Committee to insure that they are in accordance with the aforementioned rules and regulations.
Bylaws Additional Duties of the President
Additional Duties of the Vice President The Vice President will be responsible for the following duties.
Additional Duties of the Treasurer
Elections Elections will be held at the first council of October. The president will be elected first, then the treasurer, then the vice president, and then any PEC members required by the bylaws, in the order that the regulations of the PEC are listed in the bylaws. Nominations will be accepted from the floor, require no second, and are open until the first vote is cast for that office.
If no one gets a majority, and there is more than one candidate, the candidate with the fewest votes will be dropped; if two candidates are tied with the fewest number of votes, there will be a vote of the council between the two, unless one of them decides to remove himself from consideration. After a candidate has been dropped, an other vote will be taken.
If there are two candidates, and they tie, the president shall choose one.
Council Procedures Before a council, the president will write an agenda for the council and may write an Executive Motion List, hereafter referred to as an EML.
If an EML is written, the agenda will include as its first item the consideration of the EML. The agenda will include as its last item the consideration of motions from the floor.
An EML will be a list of motions submitted by the president
to a council which the president expects to be
noncontroversial. If any member of the council objects to an item on
the EML during consideration of the EML, the president may
choose either to remove the item from the EML or to get a vote from
the council; if the latter option is chosen, and at least half as many
votes are cast in favor of the removal of the item as against then it
will be removed.
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