ANAC State Chapter Establishment Bill and duties of ANAC Officers. By Lateef Kareem, M.D.(Del. IL, Trustee), Dan Austin M.D. (Del. VA, Trustee)

ANAC State chapters shall be established for the purpose of bringing the activities of ANAC to the states and districts. A chief State delegate/Chair and two assistant chief State delegates/Chair shall head the Chapter. An assistant executive director shall be nominated by the Chief delegate, with the consent of the ANAC National Executive Director, who shall be confirmed by the upper house of trustees or the house of delegates. The four officers shall co-ordinate the affairs of ANAC in all areas at this State level, to include recruitment, fund raising, other local activities of its interest, and as directed by the ANAC Board of Trustees and House of delegates.

The chief State Delegate/Chair and two assistants, one senior and other junior assistant, shall be elected by the members of ANAC in each particular state, for the United States and Nigerian districts or states. The term of office shall be two years. All State chapters shall report to the Upper House of Trustees through its Chairman. The Upper house of trustees, shall have the responsibility of maintaining the integrity of all State chapter with the assistance of the House of delegates, through its President.

The Trustees shall have the ultimate and final powers in all confirmations and appointments, in ANAC. When confirmation/s or appointment/s are in question or challenged; the trustees, through its Chairman and a member of trustee or three trustees may move the upper house to call a meeting within 30 days of such appointment or confirmation. The Chairman and or the Secretary General with the Chairman's consent must call a trustee meeting within 30 days of official receipt of such motion duly approved by the two trustees, (Chairman and a trustee) or three trustees. Upon due deliberations and an opportunity to all sides to be heard on the matter as much as possible, the upper house will vote on the matter by a simply majority vote. All such vote on matters shall be final on any appointment and or confirmation.

At the inception due to lack of infrastructure in the different states, the Chief delegates/Chair and two assistant Chief delegates/Chair, may simply be vied for by existing members, delegates or Trustees of ANAC in a particular States. The selection shall be the responsibility of the Chairman of ANAC with advice and consent of the President of ANAC, and the Trustees of a particular State, the officer of the Upper and Lower houses. Other delegates from the particular State may be consulted at the discretion of the president of the house. When there arise a conflict or disagreement in the process or there is no clear consensus, the Chairman of the Upper house shall submit all confirmed contestants names from the Chairman of Election Committee to the the Upper House of Trustees for a vote and the highest voted candidate would be selected for Chief Delegate, and two Assistant Chief delegates.

The State Chapters of ANAC and its officers shall be allowed to keep up to 40% of funds raised for the purpose of running the State Branch of ANAC while the 60% shall be remitted to ANAC national treasury from source. Additionally, 20% of all annual membership dues paid directly to ANAC National headquarters, for its state members shall be remitted back to the state branch (or 80% of membership dues paid directly to the States chapters forwarded to the National office). The state or district chapters are hereby authorized to open ANAC accounts in their districts or local state. The chief delegate and the assistant executive director shall have joint signatories to the account. All accounts of the state and district chapters are subject to regular audit and oversight of the Chief Financial Officer of ANAC, the Finance committee, ANAC Treasurer, and other resolutions and directives as granted by the Upper House Trustees and the House of delegates.

For the purpose of maintaining the integrity and streamlining the activities of ANAC, all correspondence between ANAC State Branches and outside parties shall be copied to the Chairman Upper house of Trustees, Secretary General of ANAC, President of ANAC and the Executive Director. The Executive Director, the chief State delegate/Chair will be required in each session as needed, to give a summary state of affairs of all state chapters to the Upper house, lower house or a joint session of both houses and when necessary the Chief delegate/Chair and his team may be called to give account and or testimony on affairs of operations of a state chapter.

Removal/Dismissal of state chapter Executives The Upper House of Trustees of ANAC shall have the power to remove the State chapter executive with cause. Upon receiving a petition duly signed by one third of all qualified state chapter members, or five serving delegates of affected state, or two serving trustees, for removal, the Upper house of trustees or the trustees through the Chairman may call a joint session of both houses of ANAC, shall effect a fact finding investigation to confirm the cause, if cause is justified, the Trustees shall commence the removal proceedings with a due process hearing before the Trustees or a select Joint Session (ad hoc), where the State Chief Delegate/Chair and or other State officer/s shall present their case and be heard, then the Trustees or Joint session shall decide the matter by a simple majority vote. The Chairman of the Upper House with will appoint within 30days, new officer/s whose term will continue until next scheduled election. This clause will apply to the chief delegates, the assistant chief delegates and assistant executive director collectively or individually, as the petition requires.

The Executive Director of ANAC (National office), the Chief Delegates of ANAC State Chapters, or any other ANAC elected officer may appoint staff to administrative positions for the effective functions of their offices in accordance with budget and approved directives of both houses. If such position is deemed executive, and requiring supervision of more than three staff or with sensitive decision making authority, as in counsel, Public relations officers, Executive Secretary, Trade reps, envoys, department heads, representatives intelligence and security for sensitive functions, high technology matters, scientific discovery matters, and other positions of such importance, the appointment would require a confirmation by the Upper House of Trustees, by a simple majority vote. The house of delegates may confirm such officer's, as delegated from the upper house of trustees or with consent from the upper house of trustees.