Institute
Dues. IEEE Dues are
the basic (core) costs for
membership in the IEEE and must be
paid by all members. They can
only be levied or changed by the
Board of Directors.
(b)
Organizational
Unit Dues.
Organizational Unit Dues are "member
choice" payments for membership
in an organizational unit to
which it is not mandatory for an
IEEE member to belong.
(c)
Assessments.
Assessments are payments
required of members by virtue of
their automatic membership in an
organizational unit.
(d)
Fees.
Fees are "member choice"
payments for products and
services offered to the
membership on an optional basis
(e.g., subscriptions to
periodicals.)
IEEE Dues and Assessments shall be
specified elsewhere in these Bylaws.
Assessments
and Changes
Thereto. Assessments that
apply to all IEEE members shall be
approved by action of two-thirds of the
votes of the Board of Directors present
at the time of the vote, provided a
quorum is present.
Changes in assessments for ABET,
and AAES, shall be approved by action of
two-thirds of the votes of the Board of
Directors present at the time of the
vote, provided a quorum is present.
Changes in assessments other than
those named above, and that apply to a
specific organizational unit, and not to
all IEEE members, shall be brought to
the Board of Directors for
consideration. The Board of
Directors may either approve the change by
action of two-thirds of the votes of the
Directors present at the time of the
vote, provided a quorum is present, or
require, by a majority vote, that all
IEEE voting members of the organizational
unit be given the opportunity to express
their opinion. If their opinion is
required, all eligible members of the
organizational unit shall be sent
written notice and ballots at least 30
days in advance of the close of
balloting. If a majority of those
members voting on the issue are in favor
of the new assessment, the change may be
brought back to the Board of Directors
and approved by action of two-thirds of
the votes of the Directors present at the
time of the vote, provided a quorum is
present.
Payments. Any
"member choice" payments shall be handled in
accordance with the operating rules as
specified in the operations manual of the
organizational unit receiving them.
Other payments, except as noted in other
paragraphs of these Bylaws, shall be set by
the Board of Directors.
Annual Dues
Period; Billing Cycle; Termination
and Reinstatement; Proration
Schedule; Waiver or Reductions;
Methods of
Payment. The annual dues
period or membership year shall be 1 January
to 31 December.
Should dues and applicable
assessments remain unpaid as of 1 March in
any membership year, membership shall be
automatically terminated, including all
privileges and rights, including the
right to receive products and services
associated with membership.
Notification of membership termination
shall be provided to an affected member,
along with information as to procedures
for reinstatement.
The procedures for billing
schedule; proration schedule;
waiver reduction and acceptable methods
of payment of members’ dues,
assessments and fees; termination
of membership and reinstatement of
membership shall be specified in the IEEE Policies.
IEEE Dues.
The IEEE dues for all grades other than
Student Member and Graduate Student Member,
except as noted in other paragraphs of this
Bylaw, shall be one-hundred and thirty-four
dollars (USD 134.00). There shall be no
dues and assessments for Honorary Members.
The amount allocated to Regions,
Sections, Chapters, Affinity Groups and
Student Branches will equal 12% of member dues.
Assessments. In
addition to the IEEE dues, the following
annual assessments shall apply.
A. IEEE-USA and ABET Annual Assessments.
For members other than Student Member
and Graduate Student Member, who belong to
Regions 1-6 and reside within the United
States, thirty-eight dollars (USD 38.00),
which shall support IEEE-USA.
For members other than Student Member
and Graduate Student Member, who belong to
Regions 1-6 and reside within the United
States, three dollars (USD 3.00) shall be
accounted for in an ABET reserve bookkeeping
account which shall support exclusively
IEEE’s ABET dues and associated
operating expenses by the Educational
Activities Board. Beginning with the
2006 membership year, and continuing in each
subsequent year, this assessment shall be
increased by a whole dollar (USD 1.00) each
time the following two criteria are met: (1)
IEEE expenses for ABET dues and associated
operating expenses exceed proceeds from this
assessment by more than USD 100,000 in the
immediately preceding membership year; and (2)
the ABET reserve has less than 110% of the
expected expenditures for the immediately
succeeding membership year.
B. Regional Assessments.
For members other than Student Member
and Graduate Student Member, belonging to each
of the following Regions, the respective
assessment shall apply:
Region 1, five dollars (USD 5.00) for
Region 1 Region 2, two dollars (USD 2.00)
for Region 2 Region 3, two dollars (USD
2.00) for Region 3 Region 4, three
dollars (USD 3.00) for Region 4 Region 5,
two dollars (USD 2.00) for Region 5
Region 6, one dollar (USD 1.00) for Region
6 Region 7, nineteen dollars (USD 19.00)
for Region 7 Region 8, thirteen dollars
(USD 13.00) for Region 8 Region 9, four
dollars (USD 4.00) for Region 9 Region
10, five dollars (USD 5.00) for Region 10
Student Member
and Graduate Student Member
Dues. The IEEE dues for
the Student Member and Graduate Student
Member grades shall be thirty-two
dollars ($32.00) per year in Regions 1-7
and twenty-seven dollars ($27.00) in
Regions 8-10.
Student Members and Graduate Student
Members in good standing transferring to
any other grade upon graduation, shall
pay graduated dues, assessments, and
Society dues following graduation as
follows, provided membership is
maintained without loss of continuity
during these years:
First Year 50%
Second Year 100 %
This program shall be available to
members on a one-time lifetime
basis. Once a member has taken
advantage of this benefit it cannot be
claimed again.
An IEEE Student Member or an IEEE
Graduate Student Member may join as many
of the IEEE Societies as serve the
member’s interests and may
subscribe to Society periodical options
available to Society members. The
Student and Graduate Student membership
dues and optional periodical prices shall
be established annually by the
individual
Societies/Councils/Committees. If no
specific rates are provided, Student
Member and Graduate Student Member
Society dues will not exceed 50% of
Member dues, and Student Member and
Graduate Student Member subscription
rates for optional periodicals will not
exceed 75% of Member rates.
Individual dues will be rounded up to
the next whole dollar.
Members-Dues Waived. Dues
and assessments, if any, shall be waived
on 1 January of the year following
attainment of Life Member status as
defined in Bylaw I-102.2. In
determining the required years of
membership, the following rules shall
apply:
(a) Only years in which
membership dues were paid shall be
counted;
(b) Years of Student and
Graduate Student membership shall be
counted; and
(c) Years of membership need
not be consecutive.
Life Membership in IEEE entitles
the member to the privileges specified in
IEEE Bylaw I-105.9. In addition Life
Members shall be entitled to receive,
free of charge, the services and
publication(s) provided for the basic
IEEE dues and assessments, on the
condition that the Life Member confirms
each year that such services and
publication(s) are still desired. Life
Members shall receive an annual election
ballot on the condition that the Life
Member confirms each year that the Life
Member desires to receive an annual
election ballot.
An individual who has had not less
than five years of Society or IEEE-SA
membership, immediately prior to
attaining Life Membership, or completes
such five-year period of membership while
a Life Member, may continue a Life
Membership in such Society or IEEE-SA,
respectively, without dues payment.
Life Membership in a Society or IEEE-SA
entitles the member to receive, free of
charge, the services and publication(s)
provided for the basic Society dues or
IEEE-SA dues, as the case may be, on the
condition that the Life Member confirms
each year that such services and
publication(s) are still desired.
