SECTION A – COMPOSITION
The Council shall be composed of the president, president-elect, vice-president, immediate past-president, secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer, assistant treasurer, speaker, vice-speaker, chairman of the Board of Trustees and 16 councilors elected by the House of Delegates.
The trustees, the executive vice-president, the deputy executive vice-president, and the general counsel of the Medical Society of the State of New York shall attend all meetings of the Council with voice but without vote. The councilor from the young physician section shall attend all meetings of the Council with voice and with vote. The councilor from the resident and fellow section shall attend all meetings of the Council with voice and with vote. The councilor from the medical student section shall attend all meetings of the Council with voice and with vote. The councilor from the organized medical staff section shall attend all meetings of the Council with voice and vote.
Four councilors shall be elected annually by the House of Delegates, each for a term of three years. Four councilors, one representing the young physicians’ section, one representing the organized medical staff section, and one representing the IMG Section and one representing the Minority Affairs Section shall be elected every third year by the House of Delegates for a term of three years. Two councilors, one councilor representing the medical student section and one councilor representing the resident and fellow section to the Medical Society of the State of New York, shall be elected every year by the House of Delegates, each for a term of one year. Article V, Section A, paragraph 4 is not applicable to the term of office of a resident or student councilor. In the event of a vacancy, a Councilor shall be elected by the Council to serve until the next meeting of the House of Delegates, at which time the House of Delegates shall elect a councilor to fill the unexpired term.
No person shall serve, consecutively, more than two terms as councilor. An unexpired term shall not be construed as a term of office.
The councilors shall assume office on election and shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
Except for the councilor representing the medical student section, the councilor representing the resident and fellow section, the councilor representing the young physicians section and the councilor representing the Organized Medical Staff Section, the councilor representing the IMG section, and the councilor representing the Minority Affairs Section, Councilors shall be assigned to specific county societies as liaison for the Council in accordance with the provisions of Article VI, Section B, paragraph 8. Councilors shall be required to disseminate information of Council activity as well as returning information to the Council, and shall report regularly to the Council on their activity. The councilor representing the young physicians section must be a young physician member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and must have completed residency training and be under the age of 40, or regardless of age, have completed residency training within the past eight years, at the beginning of his/her term as councilor. The councilor representing the medical student section must be a student member of the Medical Society of the State of New York; the councilor representing the resident and fellow section must be a resident member of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
A councilor shall work or maintain a residence or an office in the State of New York. Otherwise, his position in the Medical Society of the State of New York shall be declared vacant by the Council.
If a councilor is absent from three consecutive regular meetings of the Council without proper excuse, the Council shall declare his position vacant and elect a successor for the unexpired term.
