certificate - The International Biometric Society

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
BUSINESS REGULATION ADMINISTRATION
CERTIFICATE
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that all applicable provisions of the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NONPROFIT
CORPORATION ACT have been complied with and accordingly this CERTIFICATE of
INCORPORATION is hereby
issued to
INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC SOCIETY
as of JANUARY 31ST, 1996,
Hampton Cross
Director
Katharine A. Williams
Acting Administrator
Business Regulation Administration
Desiree M. Jones
Act, Asst. Superintendent of Corporations
Corporations Division
Marion Barry, Jr.
Mayor
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC SOCIETY
TO:
Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
Business Regulation Administration
Corporations Division
614 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
We, the undersigned natural persons of age 21 years or more, acting as incorporators of a
corporation under the Nonprofit Corporation Act (D.C. Code, 1981 edition. Title 29. Chapter 5), adopt
the following Articles of Incorporation.
FIRST:
The name of the corporation is International Biometric Society (hereinafter
referred to as the "Society").
SECOND:
The period of duration is perpetual.
THIRD:
The purposes for which the Society is organized are:
1) To support the advancement of biological science through the development of quantitative
theories and mathematical and statistical techniques;
(2) To provide a forum for the scientific community to exchange ideas, information and research
results related to quantitative theories and statistical applications in biological science;
(3) To collect, publish, and disseminate scientific information in the field of quantitative theories and
statistical applications in biological science;
(4) To do other things necessary or appropriate to the accomplishment of any of the objects or
purposes for which this Society is formed and generally to exercise all of its powers as are now or may
hereafter be conferred by law upon nonprofit corporations under the laws of the District of Columbia.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Articles, the Society shall not carry on any other
activities not permitted to be carried on by: (a) a corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (or any corresponding prevision of any future
United States Internal Revenue Code), or (b) a corporation to which contributions are deductible under
Section l7Q(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (or the corresponding provision of any
future United States Internal Revenue Code).
FOURTH: The Society shall have members who shall have the right to vote. The classes and
requirements for membership shall be provided in the bylaws of the Society.
FIFTH:
There shall be a Board of Directors which shall be called the Council composed of no
less than 15 nor more than 80 members. The manner of the appointment and removal of Council members
shall be provided in the Bylaws of the Society.
SIXTH:
The Council shall have supervision, control, and direction of the affairs of the Society;
determine its policies within the Unit of these Articles and the Constitution and Bylaws of the Society;
prosecute actively its objectives; and have discretion in the distribution of its funds. It may adopt such rules
and regulations for the conduct of its business as shall be deemed advisable and may, in the execution of its
powers, appoint such agents as it may consider necessary.
All of the property of the Society, and accumulations thereof, shall be held and administered to
effectuate its nonprofit purposes. Upon the dissolution of the Society, the Council shall, after paying or
making provision for the payment of all the liabilities of the Society, dispose of all of the assets of the Society
to such organization or organizations as the Council shall select, which are organized and operated
exclusively for charitable, scientific, or educational purposes as shall, at the time, qualify as an exempt
organization or organizations under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (or
the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Code).
SEVENTH:
The address, including street, number and zip code, of the initial registered office of
the Society is 808 17th Street, N.W., Suite 200. Washington, D.C. 20006. The name of the registered agent
at such address is Charles McGrath.
EIGHTH:
The number of members constituting the initial Council is fifty-seven (57). The names
and addresses, including street, number and zip code, of the persons who are to serve on the Council until
their successors are appointed and qualified are:
Name
Address
Lynne Billard
Department of Statistics
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Byron J. T. Morgan
Institute of Mathematics
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, England
Elizabeth Barath
Agricultural University of G/d/11
Department of Statistics
H-2103 G/d/ll, Hungary
Stephen L. George
Duke University Medical Center
BOX 3958
Durham, NC 27710
Charles McGilchrist
NCEPH
Australian National University
GPC Box 4, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Richard Tomassone
Institut National Agronomique
Department MathThetamatique-Informatique
16, rue Claude Bernard
75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
J. R. Allredge
Washington State University
Statistics Department
Pullman, WA 99164
Bernard Asselain
Biostatistic Department
Institut Curie
26 rue d'Ulm
Paris, France
Max Baur
University of Bonn
Institut - Med. Statistics
Sigmund-Freud Str. 25
53105 Bonn, Germany
Jane Canhao
Penhales House
Ruscombe Lane
Ruscombe, Berkshire RG109JN
England
Peter Clark
Statistics and Biometry
University of Natal
P.O. Box 375
Pietermaritzburg 3200, South Africa
Richard Cormack
University of St. Andrews
School of Mathematical and Computational
Sciences
St. Andrews KY169SS, Scotland
Sheila Zanbello de Pinho
Depto da Bioestatistica-DS
UNESP - Campus de Botucatu
18618-000 Botucatu SP, Brazil
Alan Gleeson
Technology & Biometrics
NSW Agriculture
Locked Bag 21
Orange 2800, Australia
Zsolt Harnos
University of Horticulture and Food Industry
Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
H-1118 Villssnyi u. 31
Budapest, Hungary
Peter B. Imrey
Department of Medical Information Science, Community
Health, and Statistics
University of Illinois
190 Medical Sciences Building
560 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-3618
J. Hans Jansen
DLO-Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction
Research
P. 0. Box 16
6700 AA Wageningen
The Netherlands
Eric LeBouleng
UnitTheta de BiomThetatrie-U.C.L.
Place Croix du Sud 2
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Christoph E. Minder
Dept. of Social and Preventive Medicine
University of Berne
Finkenhirbelweg 11
CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
M.S. Patel
University of Botswana
Private Bag 0022
Gaborone, Botswana
Alberto Piazza
Dipartimento di Genetica, Biologia e Chimia Medica
Via Santena 19
10126 Torino, Italy
Kenneth Pollack
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Box 8203
Raleigh, NC 27695
P.S.S. Sundar Rao
Department of Biostatistics
Christian Medical college
Vellore Tamilnadu, India 632 002
Eric Renshaw
Department of Statistics and Modelling Science
University of Strathclyde
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow Gl 1XH, Scotland
Akira Sakuma
Division of Information Medicine
Medical Research Institute
Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ.
2-3-10 Kandasurugadai
Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101 Japan
Carnen Santisteban-Requena
Instituto Pluridisciplinar Universidad Complutense
Facultad de Psicologia
Madrid 28223, Spain
Takao Shohoji
Integrated Arts and Sciences Hiroshima University
1-7-1, Kagamiyana
Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
J. Speijers
Biometrics Branch
Department of Agriculture
Baron-Hay Court
South Perth WA 6050, Australia
Kirk Steinhorst
Department of Math and Statistics University of Idaho
MOSCOW, ID 83843
Hans Wedel
Nordic School of Public Health
P.O. Box 12133
S-402 42 Gothenburg, Sweden
John Whitehead
Department of Applied Sciences
University of Reading
Harry Pitt Building
Whiteknights Road, P.O. Box 240
Reading RG6 2FN, England
Peter Avery
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
England
Peter Bauer
Institute of Medical Statistics and Documentation
Schwarzspanierstrasse, 17
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Norman Breslow
Department of Biostatistics, SC-32
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98193
Emilio A, Carbonell
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones
Agrarias, Biometric unit
Apartado Official
46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain
Pierre Dagnelie
FacultTheta des Sciences
Agronomiques de Gembloux
Avenue de la FacultTheta d'Agronomie, 8
5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Lisbeth K. Cordani
MAE-IME USP
Caixa Postal 20570
CEP 01452-990 Sao Paulo, Brazil
Annette Dobson
Department of Statistics
University of Newcastle
Callaghan, New South Wales 2308 Australia
Camille Duby
Institut National Agronomique
Paris-Grignon
Department de MathThetamatique et Informatique
16, rue Claude Bernard
75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Jssnos Fisher
ABACOM Ltd.
H-1137 Budapest, Pozsonyi .t41
Hungary
Judith Goldberg
American Cyanamid
Medical Research Division
Lederle Labs Building-140/4th Floor
Pearl River, NY 10965
Myoungshic Jhun
Statistics Department
Korea University
Cheonggu Apt. 5/101 Hakye dong
Nowon-ku, Seoul 136-701, Korea
Peter Lachenbruch
FDA/CER/OELPS/DBE
1401 Rockville Pike, HFM-215
Rockville, MD 20852
J. Lauter
Otto Von Guericke University
Institute of Biometrics and Medical Informatics
Kleipziger Strasse, 44
D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Rolf J. Lorenz
BFVA
Paul-Ehrlich Str. 28
72076 Tubingen, Germany
Thomas A. Louis
Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
A460 Mayo Memorial Bldg., Box 197
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0378
Stanislaw Mejza
Dept. of Mathematical and Statistical Methods
Agricultural University of Poznan
Wojska Polskiego 28
PL-60-637 Poznan, Poland
Pedro Nel Pacheco
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Departmento de Matematicas y Estadistica
Diagonal 106 C #4206 Apdo 101
Santafe de Bogota, Columbia
Juni Palmgren
Department of Cancer Epidemiology
Radiumhemmet
Karolinska University Hospital
S-10401 Stockholm, Sweden
Derek J. Pike
Zeneca Seeds
Jealotts Hill Research Station
Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 6EY
England
Laura Pia
Universidad Francisco de Miranda
Department of Plant Production
Apdo 7434
Coro 4101, Venezuela
Shobha Rao
Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science
Law College Road
Pune 411 004, India
Carla Rossi
Dipartimento di Matematica
Universita di Roma Tor Vergata
Via Ricerca Scientifica
00133 Rome, Italy
Zuorui Shen
Beijing Agricultural University
Department of Plant Protection
Beijing 100094, China
Tosiya Sato
Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Minami-Azabu 4-6-7
Minato, Tokyo 106, Japan
Michael Vaeth
Department of Biostatistics
University of Aarhus
Norrebrogade 44, Building 2C
DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark
Martin Vant'Hof
Medical Statistics
Nymogen University
Kapittelweg 54
6536 JC Nymogen
The Netherlands
NINTH:
The names and addresses, including street, number and zip code, of the
incorporators are:
Name
Address
Jennifer Rothenberger
1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 1050
Washington, D.C. 20006
Daniel E. Durden
1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 1050
Washington, D.C. 20006
Patricia T. Gonsalves
1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 1050
Washington, D.C. 20006
I, Virginia Morgan, a notary public, hereby certify that on this 31st day of January, 1996, JENNIFER
K. ROTHENBERGER, DANIEL E. DURDEN AND PATRICIA T. GONSALVES appeared before me and
signed the foregoing document as incorporators.
Virginia Morgan
Notary Public, District of Columbia
My commission expires December 14, 1999