The World Science Fiction Society

Minutes of the Business Meeting 1982
Business Passed On from 1981

The business passed by the Denvention II Business Meeting is as follows:

• Item 1: MOVED, to amend the WSFS Constitution as follows:
  1. Insert the following as a new section in Article I:
     Every Worldcon Committee shall include the following notice in each of its publications "‘World Science Fiction Society’, ‘WSFS’, ‘World Science Fiction Convention’, ‘Worldcon’, ‘Science Fiction Achievement Award’, and ‘Hugo Award’ are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society."
  2. Substitute "Hugo Awards" for all occurrences of "Hugos".
  3. Insert "(herinafter referred to as the Worldcon)" after the first occurrence of "World Science Fiction Convention" and substitute "Worldcon" for "World Science Fiction Convention" and "Convention" except in the phrase "Continental Convention" thereafter.
• Item 2: MOVED, to amend Article IV, Section 2, of the WSFS Constitution by adding the following
  "except that no change imposing additional costs or financial obligations upon Convention Committees shall be binding upon any Committee already selected at the time when it takes effect."
• Item 3: MOVED, to amend Article II, Section 6, of the WSFS Constitution by altering the last sentence to read:
  "In the case of individual programs presented as a series, each program is individually eligible, but the series as a whole is not eligible; however, a sequence of installments constituting a single dramatic unit may be considered as a single program(eligible in the year of the final installment)."
• Item 4: MOVED, to amend Article III of the WSFS Constitution by inserting the following new section between the current Sections 3 and 4:
  The deadline for bids from prospective Committees to be included on the ballot, as well as all information needed for filing such bids, shall be published by the current Con and sent to all members of the Society at least four months before the deadline for such bids. (Publication in a Progress Report prior to the date specified shall meet this requirement.)
• Item 5: MOVED, to amend Article II of the WSFS Constitution by adding the following new section:
  Extended Eligibility: In the event that a potential Hugo nominee receives extremely limited distribution in the year of its first publication or presentation, its eligibility may be extended for an additional year by a three-fourths vote of the intervening Business Meeting of the Society.
• Item 6: MOVED, to recommit the current draft proposal to provide a new Constitution for the World Science Fiction Society to a committee which shall report back at Chicon IV. The committee consists of Dalroy Ward, Chairman; representatives of Noreascon II, Denvention II, Chicon IV, and the 1983 Worldcon; and eight others to be appointed by the Presiding Officer of the Business Meeting. Consideration should be given to including representatives from already announced Worldcon bids. Said committee shall have the right to make any changes in the current proposal, or, at its option, may submit an entirely new draft.