Name of Association

1.       The organization shall be called The HALIFAX CHEBUCTO RINGETTE ASSOCIATION, and may be referred to as “HCRA”.

 

2.       The activities of the association are to be carried on in the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia.

 

3.       The registered office of the Association will be the primary address of the current President of the Association.

 

Mandate and Objectives

1.       Organize and provide a well-rounded program of ringette for children within the HCRA boundary in the divisions available for each given season;

 

2.       Develop the sport of Ringette amongst players, coaches, managers and referees;

 

3.       Teach children how to skate and play ringette, encourage their physical fitness and develop their sense of good sportsmanship and fair play;

 

4.       To acquire by way of grant, gift, purchase, bequest, devises or otherwise, real and personal property and to use and apply such property to the realization of the objects of the association;

 

5.       To contract and be contracted with and to sue and be sued in its corporate name;

 

6.       To subscribe to or become a member of any other Society or Association whether incorporated or not, whose objectives are in the whole or in part similar to its own objectives; and,

 

7.       To exercise all other powers vested in the society by the Societies Act, R.S.N.S."' 1989, Chapter 435.

 

PROVIDED that the society shall be carried on without purpose of gain to any of the members and that any surplus or any accretions of the association shall be used solely for the purposes of the association and the promotion of it objectives.

 

BY-LAWS OF HCRA

 

In these by-laws unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent there within:

 

1.       ASSOCIATION means HCRA

 

2.       REGISTRAR means the REGISTRAR OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES appointed under the Nova Scotia Companies Act.

 

 

3.       SPECIAL RESOLUTION means a resolution passed by not less than three fourths of such regular members entitled to vote as are present at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given.

 

4.       AREA means Halifax Regional Municipality and at the discretion of the Executive, any near by communities.<