SECTION C. OFFICERS AND ELECTIONS
Each district branch shall elect a president for two years and a delegate to the House of Delegates for two years, but with the approval of the Council, a district branch may elect a president for one year.
Each district branch shall elect such other officers as are provided for in its bylaws. They shall attend the business meetings of the branch.
In the case of the inability of the delegate of a district to serve, the vice-president shall serve as delegate, and if the vice-president is unable so to function, the president shall designate a substitute delegate to serve and shall so notify in writing the secretary of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
Any elected officer of a district branch who is called into active service in the armed forces of the United States or the United States Public Health Service may, on application to the Council, be granted leave of absence for any portion of said term of office during which said officer is on active service. During such absence said officer’s duties shall be designated as the Council may direct, except where such delegation is already provided for elsewhere in the Bylaws.
The president of each district branch shall visit the component county medical societies of the district at least once during the president’s tenure of office and make a careful inquiry of the condition of the profession in each county in the district and shall report thereon to the House of Delegates.
