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Bylaws (Iowa)

corporation or organization hosting the Imperial Session. The contract or agreement permitting attendance shall define and limit their activities to designated times and places. Amend. 1983

ARTICLE 5 Mileage and Per Diem

§ 205.1 Mileage Allowance. (a) Amount. Each Representative who attends an Imperial Session of Shriners International shall be paid a mileage allowance for himself, and also for his spouse if she accompanies him. It shall be for a round- trip comparable to, but not in excess of, the lowest discount airfare, or, if such is not available, the lowest coach or most economical airfare from the departure airport to the destination airport. The departure airport, except as provided in subsection (c), is the airport served by a regularly scheduled airline which is nearest to his temple. The destination airport is the airport served by a regularly scheduled airline which is nearest to the city of the Imperial Session. Rates shall be obtained as of the sixtieth day prior to the official opening of the Imperial Session. Amend. 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1984, 2014 (b) Temple Location. For the purpose of this section, the location of the temple is at the address given in the then current Shriners International directory or, where no street address is given, the central post office in the city named in the templeʼs charter. (c) Representative Residence. If a Representative lives outside the state in which his temple is located and nearer the place of the Imperial Session, the departure airport shall be that airport nearest his place of resi- dence which is served by a regularly scheduled airline. Amend. 1979 (d) Form. The Imperial Recorder shall mail a mileage allowance form to each Representative prior to the Imperial Session. The Representative shall complete this form and he must present it at the time he registers for the Imperial Session. He shall indicate on the form, under oath, what method of transportation he used to travel to the Imperial Session, whether his spouse accompanied him, and such other information as may be requested by the Imperial Recorder. If public transportation was used, the Representative must attach his receipt for the payment of the transporta- tion for himself and also for his spouse, if she accompanied him. In the event the Imperial Potentate determines that a Representative knowingly misrepresented any of the information on the form, he shall forfeit all of his mileage allowance and per diem and he shall be subject to discipline for conduct unbecoming a Noble of the Order. Amend. 1984, 1992

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