SanibLakas Foundation:

Constitution 

Ratified in November 2002

 

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CONSTITUTION

OF THE SANIBLAKAS NG TAONGBAYAN FOUNDATION, INC.


  Preamble

E ARE INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY CONSCIOUS of the great power to be attained in synergism, where the magnitude of a unified whole is greater than the sum of the separate parts contributing to it, a principle that is alive in Nature and the Cosmos; 

We are individually and collectively conscious that a fast-growing number of people all over the world are discovering and consciously applying the empowering principle of synergism in various fields of human endeavor, including philosophy and economics, social and natural sciences, governance and empowerment, education and profound enlightenment, gender and family relations, inner and environmental health, culture and aesthetics; 

We are individually and collectively conscious that there are compelling reasons and effective ways to hasten, broaden and stabilize the consistent application of the synergism principle for people's self-empowerment and national synergy-building, and that one such way is to establish, strengthen and continually develop a formal and solid organization of conscious and consistently-active synergy-builders and facilitate effective teamwork systems for their work. This is a distinct contribution to the overall pursuit of total human development and harmony throughout the world.

And we individually and collectively commit to live this conscious­ness, further grow in it, and spread it far and wide, to the best of our creative abilities; and on this basis, we hereby uphold the establishment of the solid organization of consistently-active synergizers, under the following definitions, delineations, principles and basic policies.



PART ONE: BASIC UNITIES

 


 

    Article I:   Name, Symbol and Office of the Organization


  Section 1. The full official name of this organization shall be SanibLakas ng Taongbayan Foundation, Inc. It shall also be publicly projected and known as SanibLakas Foundation.  It shall also hereinafter be referred to as the “Foundation.”   


Section 2.  It shall be the task of the Foundation to exercise best efforts to cause any other entity to refrain from using the word “SanibLakas” in the latter’s name, especially if such use tends to confuse, distort, dilute and/or denigrate the synergetic essence of this name.


 Section 3.  The official symbol of the organization shall combine a set of converging arrows, symbolizing directional unity, with the sunburst, representing the great power created by that unity, in tribute to the atomic fusion process of generating energy within all known suns of the universe.


Section 4.  The central office of this organization shall be in Metro­politan Manila, the national capital region of the Philippines.


 

  Article II. Objectives of the Organization


Section 1.  The objectives of this organization shall be the following:

1)      to work for the development and application of effective technologies of empowerment for Filipinos as individual human beings and as individual honorable and productive citizens;

2)      to work for the development and application of effective technologies of empowerment for Filipinos as groups and communities, based on the principles of human synergism; and

3)      to contribute to national synergy-building and ultimately to total human development and universal harmony, on the basis of the foregoing objectives.


 

  Article III.  Declaration of Principles for Human Synergism


Section 1.  In all its internal and external dynamics, the organization shall uphold the Principles of Human Synergism, where empowerment shall be generative and not merely distributive in character and consequence.


Section 2.  Specifically, these principles are the following:

1)   Human dignity and empowerment, as accorded to and enjoyed by individual humans, shall be exalted and enhanced as the basis of collective dignity and empowerment.  SanibLakas work shall endeavor to enable every member, every partner and every person touched by its work, to achieve one’s maximum potential with the greatest attainable sense of fulfillment, to develop individual and collective sense of self-confidence, and to build stronger bonds with fellow-humans and with the rest of Nature, for personal or group success.

2)   Personal growth and empowerment is a life-long process that requires fundamental changes manifesting in consistent living behavior. This can only be built gradually, with each step solidly constructed, starting from the self. The individual must be adequately and effectively helped to be self-confident, competent and clear about the process of empowerment. After the inner self has become ready, the process can move on to formal and informal relationships, groups, society as a whole, and humanity as a whole.

3)    The quality and magnitude of collective commitment, perform­ance and empowerment are all ultimately rooted in the quality and magnitude of individual commitment, perform­ance and empowerment, on the number of individuals contributing to the collective efforts, and on the quality and degree of their bonding.

4) A healthy and empowering organization is one where the principle of synergism is lived to the fullest, where this powerful principle is very much alive in the members’ strong individual and collective sense of determination, confidence and fulfillment (“synergies of heart and spirit”), very much alive in decision-making processes that are broad-based, integrative and unifying (“synergy of many minds”), very much alive in members’ concerted actions (“synergy of the muscles”), pursuing the organization’s vision, mission, and programs of action. Organizations that synergize and thus empower their members fully serve the basic human right to association.

5) In contrast to personalistic leadership, synergetic leadership mandates that formal and informal leaders exert influence among other members to uphold more firmly the organization’s principles, vision, mission, policies, programs of action and plans, and all non-divisive processes that can help to refine these.

6) Meetings are defined as systematic discussions of a definite set of topics to forge strong unities on the best possible analyses, solutions, plans and policies on the basis of earlier synergies of minds and towards firmer and clearer synergies of minds upon which stronger synergies of spirit and of bodies can be attained in an organization as such. Meetings should therefore be active, participatory, orderly and productive. The chairing of a meeting is a function that does not elevate the assigned functionary to any rank higher than that of other participants except only on matters of the orderly conduct of the same.  Members have the responsibility to come punctually to meetings prepared to discuss actively, to contribute substantially, and to respect the other members and their ideas.


 

  Article IV.  Approaches of the Foundation 


Section  1.  The general approach of SanibLakas ng Taongbayan Foundation in the lawful pursuit of its objectives shall be that of healthy partnership-building, applying generative empowerment and respecting all partners as co-equal teammates in specific endeavors, seeking optimum levels and terms of partnership, and being aboveboard in all dealings with them.  


Section 2.   Such synergetic partnership shall be forged and nurtured by the SanibLakas Foundation with the individuals and groups that are applying the principle and building growing synergies in their respective fields of concern and/or interest.

Section 3.  Partnerships shall be encouraged, forged, nurtured and supported in other ways, among all synergism-oriented individuals and organizations/institutions. The Foundation shall exert persuasive motivation and provide facilitation, educational and other forms of support for many of these synergism-oriented individuals and entities to officially form part of a broad Synergy Community, to be called "Pamayanang SanibLakas,” which shall have its own organic leadership elected by its member-entities and by clusters of its individual members, and which shall officially subscribe as an organization to the herein Principles of Human Synergism.

Section 4. SanibLakas Foundation shall form or help form other lawful organizations in line with its synergy-building priorities, develop these into healthy and self-reliant organizations (with all "Three Synergies" functioning) that can spin off, after which eventuality the Foundation shall continue, as a partner, to guide and help develop these organizations, connect them with other members of the Pamayanang SanibLakas, and give them other means of support.



PART TWO: MEMBERSHIP POLICIES

 


 

    Article V:  Recruitment and Retention of Members


  Section 1.  The  Foundation shall recruit and retain individuals on the basis of the following premises:

1)  the individual’s categorical adoption of synergism-promotion, synergism-application, and human synergy-building as part of one’s personal mission in life; and

2)  the individual’s acknowledgment of the value of pursuing such a component of personal mission together with similarly-motivated individuals.

3) the individual’s acknowledgment of SanibLakas Foundation as a formal mechanism for persons to pursue common personal missions together in synergy, and

4) the individual’s application for membership and remaining as member therein is a pledge upon one’s honor to abide by its policies, plans and programs in pursuit of its role of synergizing the individual personal efforts.


  Article VI:  The Solemn Pledge of Membership


  Section 1.  SanibLakas Foundation shall have a Solemn Pledge of Membership with the following text: :

“Having freely adopted as part of my personal life mission the promotion and conscious application of the synergism principle on day-to-day and long-term challenges to advance human development and harmony,

“And, conscious that synergism is a great magnifier of effectiveness whenever individual and energies are brought together in a working teamwork, with the commonality of intention and commitment as the strong bonding element and diversity as the dynamic factor,

“I, therefore, now voluntarily and solemnly pledge, upon my honor, to be consistent and forthright with my commitment to the SanibLakas mission, to hone my skills and help others do the same with theirs, and to work as a good team player within the synergism-promoting organization of the SanibLakas ng Taongbayan Foundation. This I will do in such areas of work as I am most interested in and/or most appropriate for, and, upon such bases, create and maximize any and all opportunities for building strong synergies within my household, community, grouping, area, nation and global family.

“May I be helped and closely guided by the Great Synergy of All Synergies!”\


  Section 2 .  The SanibLakas Solemn Pledge of Membership shall be:

1) declared and signed before witnesses by every new member entering the organization;

2) declared before witnesses by a member or members accepting a new function or  assignment; and 

3) declared by witnesses in solidarity with members who are declaring it before them.


  Article VII:  Rights and Duties of Members


  Section 1.  All Foundation members in good standing shall have the following rights:

1) To partake of education on the Synergism Principle and its applications;

2) To exercise personal informed choice on assignment to a team and/or line of work within the organization to be considered the official task upon approval by the organization.

3) To be officially identified by the Foundation as a member of the organization.

4) To be fully informed on the history and current efforts of the Foundation;

5) To vote in elections within the organization and be elected to positions they are qualified for.

6)  To participate in decision-making processes within the organization, including the right to submit formal inquiries, observations, opinions and recommendations for official acknowledgment, recording and consideration by the organization, and to circulate such inquiries or views among other members prior to acknowledgment, provided that such do not include statements or implications that are unfounded and/or divisive;

7) To be free to resign honorably from the organization or to file official leaves of absence as a member; and

8) To fully enjoy due process in the treatment of sanctionable cases, and the right to appeal decisions.


  Section 2.  All members of the Foundation shall have the following duties:

1) To consistently live by all the premises and criteria for recruitment into the organization and for retention therein;

2) To attend the sessions of the General Assembly and pay annual membership dues the amount of which shall be determined by a specific resolution of the Assembly applicable for payment in registration for the succeeding regular session of the Assembly, provided that absence from two consecutive regular sessions of this Assembly shall automatically redound to the technical suspension from membership of the member concerned;

3) To keep themselves informed about the entire work of the SanibLakas Foundation and the Pamayanang SanibLakas and keep alert for opportunities to interlink efforts and people within and outside their own teams of choice and assignment;

4) To be receptive to all information from Foundation center, and from other centers of leadership and initiative, as a means to contribute high-quality participation in decision-making meetings and other meetings.

5) To file for a formal leave of absence as necessary.


  Article VIII:  Accountability


  Section 1.  Wholesome discipline, premised on each member’s solemn declaration of the SanibLakas Membership of commitment upon entry into the Foundation as a member, shall be upheld to attain/maintain a high level of synergy and effectiveness within the organization. The main approaches to this are quality recruitment and effective education, and persuasive motivation for optimized synergy.


 Section 2.  The following offenses shall be deemed grounds for evaluation to determine sanctionability:

1)  non-performance of tasks in the chosen line of work

2)  neglect of duty to be constantly in touch with the assigned team or members thereof;

3)  serious violations of the rights of other members, of partners, of other individuals;

4)  serious and habitual behavior in violation of the ethics of honesty, fairness to all, sense of responsibility, and predisposition to unite;


  Section 3.  The process of Evaluation for Sanctionability shall uphold at all times every person’s right to due process, according to the following:

1)  Investigation shall be all-sided;

2)  Investigative, prosecutory and judgment functions shall be lodged in separate persons.

3)  The respondent member’s  right to be fully informed, face and rebut witnesses and allegations shall be upheld;

4)  Respondent members’ right to appeal for reconsideration of an unfavorable decision as well as for status quo pro ante while such appeal of unfavorable decision is yet to be decided with finality.


 Section 4.  Corrective and conciliatory efforts shall be exhausted and mitigating and extenuating factors shall be considered before any sanction appropriate to the sanctionable act becomes applicable. Such sanctions may take any of the following forms:

1)  a written reprimand to the member concerned, with notice to the other Foundation members he/she has direct interaction with;

2)  definite-period suspension, with notice to the other members and to individual and institutional partners the concerned member has direct interaction with;

3)  expulsion with notice to all other members and to individual and institutional partners. Notice to the public may become necessary if the offense is of public import, highly destructive, or gravely malicious, provided, however, that such shall be meted out exclusively by a two-thuirds majority vote of the Board of Tustees meeting en banc, for post-promulgation review by the General Assembly



PART THREE: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

 


 

    Article IX: The General Assembly


 Section 1.   The highest policy-formulation and decision-making authority of the Foundation shall be vested in the General Assembly, hereinafter also referred to as the “Assembly,” which shall be composed of all members in good standing, which shall convene in regular session, motu propio, on the whole day of the third Saturday of November of every year, or convened by the Board of Trustees in special sessions whenever necessary, to hear, discuss if necessary and formally accept the President’s Report; to hear, inspect, discuss if necessary, and approve the Financial Report; to hear and formally accept the Auditor’s Report, to formulate, promulgate and/or amend provisions of the SanibLakas Foundation Constitution and By-Laws: to evaluate, adopt or amend the three-year plan; to elect members and alternate members of the Board of Trustees; and to make such other decisions as are deemed to be appropriate for this body to act upon.


Section 2.   A regular session of the General Assembly shall require for quorum a simple majority of all Foundation members in good standing, counting the respective proxies chosen, and provided that unexcused absences from two consecutive regular General Assembly sessions shall redound to the instant exclusion of the member concerned from the base figure for determining the required quorum.


Section 3.   The regular session of the General Assembly shall be presided by an Assembly Chairperson chosen by the Assembly in an election presided by the Foundation President at the start of the session proper, provided that the Assembly Chairperson shall be effectively assisted by an Assembly Floor Leader and an Assembly Secretary appointed by the Assembly Chairperson, and by a designated Assembly process observer.


Section 4.  To address circumstances urgently necessitating amendments to the SanibLakas Foundation Constitution and By-Laws, or drastic adjustments in the current three-year plan, or both, or for any other urgent purpose of equivalent importance, a special session of the General Assembly may be convened with specific agenda specified and clearly explained.


 

    Article X: The Board of Trustees


 Section 1.  Between the regular sessions of the General Assembly, the highest policy-formulation and decision-making authority of the Foundation shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, hereinafter also referred to as the “Board,” composed of eleven Foundation members in good standing elected to the position by the General Assembly.


Section 2.  The incumbent Foundation President shall automatically be deemed reelected by the Assembly as member of the Board, and each regular session of the General Assembly shall elect one of two sets of five Board members for two-year terms, as well as two alternate Board members for a term of one year.


Section 3.  The Board shall meet in regular plenary session four times a year to adopt and promulgate a one-year plan; to monitor, supervise, and evaluate the implementation thereof, and, as necessary, to make timely adjustments thereto; to exercise supervision over the operation of the entire organization on the basis of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Foundation and the other promulgations of the General Assembly, and to call a special session of the General Assembly whenever necessary.


Section 4.  The presence of six out of eleven members shall constitute the quorum for the plenary meeting of the Board provided that elected alternate members may be called to attend as official proxies for absentee Board members.


Section 5.  Alternate members, in the order of the number of votes received during the regular session of the General Assembly, shall be sworn-in as regular members of the Board in cases where temporary or permanent vacancies occur in the Board, provided that the proxies shall only serve unexpired terms, in cases of permanent vacancies, or during interim periods, in cases of temporary vacancy.


Section 6.  Outside its quarterly plenary meetings, the Board of Trustees shall reserve the option to exercise its supervisory functions through special plenary sessions called as often as necessary or through meetings of its Executive Committee.


Section 7.  The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees shall be composed of the following executive officers elected by and from among the members of the Board, with their respective individual functions and responsibilities as hereunder enumerated:

1)      The Foundation President, who shall also serve as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees and principal spokesperson and external relations officer of the Foundation;

2)      The Vice President who shall also serve as Vice Chairperson of the Board and exercise supplementary guidance over the Foundation’s human resources expansion and development systems;

3)      The Board Secretary, who shall be responsible for the generation, safekeeping and efficient retrieval of all official records of the Foundation, and for preparing official reports of the Board for submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission;

4)      The Board Treasurer, who shall be responsible for the generation, accuracy and comprehensiveness, safekeeping and efficient retrieval of records of all financial transactions, and shall likewise be responsible to the Board for the safekeeping, maintenance and proper use of Foundation funds, assets, and other properties, including the preparation of financial reports for submission to the General Assembly and to the Securities and Exchange Commission..

5)      The Foundation Auditor, who shall be responsible for auditing financial accounts, and also for auditing organizational operations for essential and operational fidelity to the Foundation’s Constitution and By-Laws and to the established principles of stable and democratic governance within empowering organizations, including the proper conduct of meetings and adoption of decisions according to established Rules of Order, and recommend adjustments in policy and work styles on the basis of her or his analyses of current operations.


 

    Article XI. The Management Committee


Section 1.  The Board of Trustees shall appoint a Management Committee, composed of the following officers:

1)  The Foundation President who shall be the  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation.

2)  The Foundation Executive Director, who shall be the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Foundation, shall be chosen  and hired in accordance with policies previously promulgated by the Board of Trustees, and shall serve as an ex-officio member of the Board with no voting powers unless he/she is a duly elected member of the Board.

3) The Foundation Finance Officer, who shall be the chief resources-generation officer and operational funds custodian and operational supervisor of the Foundation’s voucher, disbursement and accounting systems, shall be chosen and hired in accordance with policies previously promulgated by the Board of Trustees.

4) The Foundation Auditor, whose functions are delineated above, and who shall receive such honoraria and allowances as determined by the Board of Trustees, with the Auditor inhibiting herself/himself from participation.


Section 2.  For promulgation of policies, guidelines and standard operating procedures governing regular operations and the contracting of personnel, and for specific appointments, the Management Committee makes decisions collegially. 


 

    Article XII. Standing Committees


Section 1.  There shall be created, under this Constitution, the following Standing Committees for specialized organizational functions, under the principal supervision of the Management Committee:

1) The Membership Committee, which shall take charge of recruitment, clear tasking, and development-tracking of members, subject to general guidelines promulgated by the Board of Trustees and to specific procedures promulgated by the Management Committee. The Membership Committee shall conduct investigations, motu propio or upon receiving complaints against members.

2) The Human Resources Development Committee, which shall orchestrate the implementation of the Foundation’s internal education thrusts through an integrated approach that combines formal seminars, reading materials, sharing sessions, skills training, and lifepath counseling, all geared to the total human development of the members.

3) The Finance and Material Resources Committee, which shall orchestrate the Foundation’s efforts to solicit and mobilize funds and other material resources to support synergism-oriented efforts of the Pamayanang SanibLakas and to cover the Foundation’s own administrative and operational expenses.

4) The External Relations Committee, which shall take charge of generation and public dissemination of information on the thrusts and activities of the Foundation and on developments therein, and taking charge, as well, of tracking, guiding, orchestrating and optimizing the efforts of the members and different teams of the Foundation and of Pamayanang SanibLakas to build and cultivate external partnerships with private local, national, foreign, and international entities and with instrumentalities and functionaries of goverenment.


Section 2. The Management Committee shall collegially appoint the heads of the Standing Committees.



PART FOUR: OPERATIONAL AND SPECIAL BODIES

 


 

    Article XIII. SanibLakas Team as Basic Operational Unit


Section 1.  Each member of the SanibLakas Foundation shall work within a SanibLakas Team, also to be known as SLT, the basic operational unit of SanibLakas Foundation, which shall function as a living cell of the organization.


Section 2. Members of an SLT shall work together within a project, a sub-project, an organization, or an instrumentality of an organization, for the general tasks of pursuing a living study of the synergism principle, in firing the level of enthusiasm, and developing its overall internal strength, and helping it build mutually-empowering partnerships with appropriate entities within and outside the Pamayanang SanibLakas. 


Section 3.  Working with other leaders as co-equal partners within such sustained activities or organized entities, members of the SanibLakas Teams shall refrain from seeking operational dominance or control over these activities or entities, and shall focus their concerns on individual and collective tasks relevant to any of the following: 

1) promoting a working familiarity and deep consciousness of the Synergism Principle among leaders, members or personnel and the whole sphere of influence of the activity or entity;

2) ascertaining and further development of basis for recommending persons for recruitment into the Foundation;

3)  creating and optimizing opportunities for mobilizing support for the work of other SanibLakas Teams, of the Foundation as a whole, of  member-entities of Pamayanang SanibLakas, of the entire Pamayanan, and of the entire Filipino nation and Humankind.

4) providing, all necessary forms of personal support to one another for the individual and collective happy march toward total human development and harmony, and seeking support from the bigger SanibLakas community for special needs the team is not capable to address substantially.

5) recommending adjustments in tasking of any member, for the latter’s benefit according to the specific personal inclinations, capabilities and potentials of the member concerned.


 

  Article XIV. Consultative and Coordinative Cluster Councils


Section 1.  Clusters of SLTs working in sustained activities and formal entities that are intimately-interlinked shall constitute consultative and coordinative cluster councils to clarify broader perspectives, streamline their work plans and strengthen their overall synergy.


Section 2.  These councils shall work by convening plenary assemblies of all SanibLakas Foundation members concerned or by convening the heads of the SLTs, whichever is necessary and practicable for any given time and circumstance.


Section 3.  These councils shall inform the the General Assembly and the Board of Trustees about their consultative and coordinative work and about the development of actualizing the synergism-promoting mission of the Foundation in their respective lines of work or areas of concern, which information shall form part of the President’s Report to the regular sessions of the General Assembly.


 

  Article XV.  Ad Hoc Committees 


Section 1.  Ad hoc committees shall be formed to administer special SanibLakas Foundation projects and activities, to work in tandem with representatives of partner entities if and when such partner entities formalize their agreement to the partnership.


Section 2.  Each ad hoc committee shall be created and supervised by the Cluster Council or Standing Committee initiating and undertaking the special project or activity concerned, with its members to be appointed by the creating entity from among appropriate and available Foundation members.


Section 3.  At every stage of creating, operationalizing and decommissioning of an ad hoc committee, orientational guidance shall be exercised by the Board of Trustees or its Executive Committee.


 

  Article XVI. Conciliatory and Sanctions Committee


Section 1.  A special Conciliatory Committee or a Sanctions Committee shall be created by the Board of Trustees as the need arises to dispose of specific conciliatory and/or sanctionable issues reported to it by the Membership Committee, and in accordance with the  Rules and Guidelines as stipulated in the By-Laws.


Section 2.  One appeal for reconsideration shall be allowed before a final decision is rendered by the concerned special committee, after which such commit­tee shall be dissolved. Any further appeal shall be addressed by the Board of Trustees constituting itself as an Appeals Adjudication Body.



PART FIVE: STANDARD PROVISIONS


 

    Article XVI.  Amendments


Section 1.  Any member in good standing may initiate amendments to the SanibLakas Constitution and By-Laws, provided that such amendments being proposed shall have been submitted in the form of alternative formulations no less than fourteen (14) calendar days before the convening of the General Assembly.


Section 2.  After such deadline, only amendments proposed by SanibLakas Teams, cluster councils, committees or the Board of Trustees shall be assured of consideration during the proximate session of the General Assembly.


Section 3.  Any substantive amendments to the Preamble, to the “Basic Unities” provisions under Part One, or to the present amendment provision (Article XV, Section 3), shall be accepted for consideration by the General Assembly not earlier than four (4) years after the ratification of this Constitution and shall be deemed approved if ratified by a three-fourths (3/4) majority vote of the General Assembly in regular session. 


Section 4.  Proposed amendments to any other provisions of the SanibLakas Constitution and By-Laws shall be ratified by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of votes cast in a regular session of the General Assembly.


 

  Article XVII.  Transitory Provisions


Section 1All members of the SanibLakas Foundation at the time of the ratification of this Constitution shall rethink their personal commitment and renew their Pledge of Membership within a period of three (3) months after receipt of a copy of this Constitution, to remain as members of the organization.


Section 2. The incumbent members of the Board of Trustees with one more year of unexpired term shall renew their Pledge of Membership immediately after the ratification of this Constitution, and other members shall do likewise, in order to qualify to serve in the new Board.


Section 3.  All present members in good standing of SanibLakas Foundation shall automatically be deemed individual founding members of Pamayanang SanibLakas unless and until they categortically declare a personal preference not to be members of the new organizational formation, which shall be created by the General Assembly in the same session that shall have ratified this Constitution.


Section 4.  Ongoing program thrusts, programs and three-year plan of action ending in December 2003 shall not be affected by the ratification and promulgation of this Constitution, except any parts deemed by the General Assembly or by the Board of Trustees to be contrrary to the Preamble or to the provisions under Part One hereof.


Section 5.  The Board of Trustees is hereby mandated to constitute and  operationalize at the shortest time possible after the ratification of this Constitution all bodies created under this document, and prior to such operationalization, to assume directly or indirectly the functions lodged therein, to meet pressing necessities.

 


 

  Article XVIII.   Effectivity and Repealing Provisions


Section 1.   This Constitution shall be considered valid and in effect upon the satisfaction of both of the following two conditions:

1) The General Assembly ratifies the present Draft Constitution by a two-thirds majority of all votes cast in regular session in favor of the motion to ratify the same; and

2) The Assembly, in the same session, adopts a resolution creating the organizational formation of a broad Synergy Community, to be called "Pamayanang SanibLakas,” and promulgating a founding charter therefor.


Section 2.  Effectivity of this Constitution, supplants in toto the original Articles of Incorporation of SanibLakas ng Taongbayan, Inc., originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Republic of the Philippines in 1986, as amended and supplanted by the Articles of Incorporation of the Saniblakas ng Taongbayan Foundation, filed with the same Commission in 1997.


Section 3.  The ratification and effectivity of this Constitution shall be duly and promptly reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Republic of the Philippines, whose subsequently required adjustments that shall not contravene substantively any provisions herein shall be complied with as a matter of course with adjustments to be made accordingly, for immediate effectivity; with prior consent hereby expressed by this General Assembly.


Section 4.  All provisions of the present SanibLakas By-Laws that contravene provisions hereof are hereby repealed or modified accordingly, provided that the Board of Trustees is mandated to issue policy clarifications on all matters of inconsistency and inclarity; provided, further that all the unaffected provisions of the present By-Laws remain in force and effect; and provided, finally, that the next regular session of the General Assembly shall ratify and promulgate an integrated and updated set of By-Laws for the organization.

  


 

This was unanimously ratified by the General Assembly held in Geo-Café, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines on November 16, 2002, with the required quorum. Styling finalized by the Board of Trustees, April 2003.

 

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