Article I - Name

The name of the association shall be Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association (herein referred to as the Association).

Article II - Purposes

The purposes of this Association are to adopt a Code of Ethics; to promote fair competition between members of the industry and to protect the interests of wholesale distributing yards. This Association covers the activities of recognized wholesale lumber distributing yards handling at wholesale not only hardwoods but also those additional items of lumber and forest products that custom and practice has or may develop in the various sections.

The further purposes of this Association are to reduce and relieve unemployment; to improve the standards of labor therein and to maintain a reasonable balance between supply and demand of hardwood lumber and plywood in the eleven Western states.

Article III - Membership

Membership in this Association shall be open to all hardwood lumber and hardwood panel distributors upon the recommendation of the Membership Committee.

An entrance fee shall be charged in the Association (amount to be determined.) A distributor, as used herein, includes any individual firm partnership or corporation, who maintains adequate and permanent plant or plants, carries on hand at all times a comprehensive and well-assorted stock of all types of hardwoods and/or plywood necessary to properly service the requirements of his area (such as a stocking distributor); a distributor who maintains a sales organization for this purpose, assumes credit risks and such other obligations as are incident to transportation and distribution, and who has sufficient capital to rate as a normal credit risk.

That discussion and recommendations of all new members in the annual membership committee meeting held November of each year, be faxed to the Board of Directors. The firm will be voted in by a simple majority of votes by the board at the next annual meeting.

Article IV - Administration

Section I. The administration of this Association shall be under the direction of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall have all the powers and duties conferred upon it by these By-Laws and generally all such other powers and duties as shall be necesary to properly administer the purposes of this Association.

Section 2. Officers. There shall be a President, a First Vice-President, a Second Vice-President , a Secretary-Treasurer, and seven Directors as elected by majority of members present at the annual meeting.

Section 3. Representation. Each concern having membership in this Association may have as many individual representatives from their officers only as they choose, but each concern shall have but one vote.

Section 4. Officers Duties. The President shall be the executive officer of the Association and shall maintain the central office and supervise the activities of the Secretary. He shall receive suggestions and propositions and shall execute the projects decided upon by the Association through the Secretary by appointment of Committees and other means. Secretary-Treasurer. The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform all the duties of a Secretary-Treasurer under the supervision of the President. He shall be custodian of the funds of the Association and shall make disbursements upon the order of the President.

Section 5. Dues. The dues shall be at a rate decided upon by the Board of Directors.

Article V - Meetings

There shall be an annual meeting of the Association which will be called by the President for the purpose of submitting the annual reports and the transactions of other business. Notice of such meetings shall be mailed to the last recorded address of each member, at least 30 days before the time appointed for the meeting. That all attendance at the Conventions of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association be closed to non-members except those specifically authorized by the President or acting officers.

Article VI - Amendments

The By-Laws of this association may be amended, repealed or altered in whole or in part by majority vote of the membership of the Association, provided the proposed change is submitted by mail to the last recorded address of each member at least 15 days before the time of the meeting, which is to consider the change.