Article II: Duties of the Executive Committee

(1) The five elected and two appointed executive officers of the North American Saxophone Alliance, as described in these Bylaws, make up the seven-member Executive Committee of the North American Saxophone Alliance. The President of the Alliance is the presiding officer, and the line of succession prescribed by the Constitution, Article VI, Section 10, shall determine chairmanship in the event the office of President becomes vacant, or in the event the President is temporarily unable to preside.

(2) The Executive Committee of the North American Saxophone Alliance is the chief governing body of the Alliance, and is charged with the responsibility to act in the best interests of the general membership, guided by the stated purposes of the Alliance as prescribed in the Constitution, Article III.

(3) The Executive Committee shall be responsible to adhere to limitations in its governing authority as prescribed by various sections of the Constitution and Bylaws of the North American Saxophone Alliance.

(4) The Executive Committee shall meet at least one time per year, unless the executive officers agree to waive such meeting(s) in accordance with the Constitution, Article VIII, Section 3, "Communications in lieu of Meetings." In considering the business of the Alliance and voting on issues, a quorum shall consist of at least five of the seven members of the Executive Committee, unless one or more offices are currently vacant, in which case a quorum shall consist of at least two thirds of the current Executive Officers.

(5) When governing by communications in lieu of meetings, it shall be the responsibility of the President to circulate to all executive officers, members and non-members of the Executive Committee without exception, information on items of business, and to request the votes or other responses from individual executive officers, although the President may designate the Secretary or another executive officer to perform the actual physical distribution of materials. For matters of urgency, the Executive Committee may communicate by telephone, conference or through a series of calls, but any votes of the Executive Committee must be rendered expeditiously in writing by the executive officers and delivered to the President, or the Secretary or other officer so designated by the President. For matters requiring a two-thirds or three-quarters majority vote of the Executive Committee, no determination may be made or action executed by the President prior to receiving adequate votes of the executive officers in writing to constitute a quorum. The correspondences of the executive officers in which they register votes on Executive Committee maters shall remain confidential, shall reside with the president or Secretary, and shall be appropriately organized in the permanent files of the Alliance.

(6) Executive officers shall be reimbursed and/or advanced Alliance funds to cover the expenses of performing their duties. The Executive Committee shall determine quarterly spending limits for the various executive officers, by two-thirds majority vote, and these limits may be reconsidered from time to time. The advanced or reimbursed funds shall be calculated and paid by the Treasurer who shall determine his actions based on quarterly report forms submitted to the other officers and returned by a deadline so specified by the Treasurer. In no case shall the Treasurer advance or reimburse funds to an individual officer in excess of established limits without authorization by a two-thirds approval of the Executive Committee; in no case shall the Executive Committee authorize, or shall the Treasurer remit to an individual officer, funds in excess of five percent (5%) of the available funds in the treasury of the Alliance.