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8Section 4. Executive CommitteeThe Executive Committee shall have the following powers and duties: a. To regulate and control all athletic contests between and among the members of this Corporation; b. To conduct interschool tourneys and meets sponsored by the Corporation. c. To determine penalties and forfeitures for violations of the By-Laws of the Corporation. d. To give interpretations of the rules and By-Laws of the Corporation. e. When charges are made in writing by a member of the Corporation against another member for violation of the By-Laws, the Committee, after giving due notice of the time and place for the school so charged to be heard, shall consider such charges and if they are found to be true, may assess such penalty as may be provided under the By-Laws. f. To decide all protests brought before it with reference to qualifi cations of contestants to meets and tourneys. g. When any matter comes before the Committee for decision which is of special interest to a school of which a member of the Committee is a representative, the remaining members shall act in that matter. h. To initiate and make investigations regarding interschool activities participated in by members of this Corporation and to make and enforce these regulations deemed necessary to make eff ective the spirit, purpose and wording of the provisions of the ByLaws of the Corporation; to make and enforce temporary regulations deemed necessary to handle emergencies and special conditions that may arise in the regulation of the interschool athletic activities participated in by members of this Corporation. In the enforcement of the provisions of this section or any other section or subsection, the Committee shall have the power to assess any penalty as may be provided under the By-Laws; i. To execute the rules governing the Corporation in the spirit as well as the letter in which they are written, j. To employ a Commissioner and Staff Assistants to serve for a period not to exceed fi ve years on any one contract beginning on the fi rst day of July following employment at a salary to be determined by the Committee and shall receive as compensation such sum and such allowance for expenses and clerical help as the Committee may approve. All contractual agreements between said personnel and Committee shall be in written form. k. To fi ll vacancies in the offi ce of Commissioner or Staff Assistants. l. To determine and set out the powers and duties of the Commissioner and Staff Assistants with the idea of giving the offi ce of Commissioner the powers and duties of a Commissioner of Athletics, whose opinions and actions will be subject to review by the Committee on appeal. m. To refuse sanction to games, meets, tourneys and athletic contests in which member schools are connected if these games, meets, tourneys and athletic contests seem, upon investigation, to be in confl ict with the spirit, purpose, ideals, standards, policies or best interest of the Corporation in their inception, arrangements, promotion or management. n. To make a temporary regulation of the Corporation when an emergency arises. Such regulation shall be in force until the next meeting of the Directors, at which time it will be subject to the disposition of this body. o. A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum. ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER shall be followed in all meetings except the Chairman shall be entitled to vote on any and all issues. p. To call any special meeting of the Committee which may be attended by members by any means of any form of electronic voice communication, provided that all members can simultaneously hear the proceedings and be heard by all other members of the Committee in attendance at the meeting. A quorum for any meeting so held shall be computed on the basis of all persons in voice contact with each other. Any meeting so held shall be a formal meeting of the Executive Committee for all purposes, and any business may be transacted at such meeting that could be transacted if the members were assembled in physical proximity to each other.Article IV - Administration