WFKU - PRIMEIRO ESTATUTO SOCIAL (EM INGLÊS)

 


SOCIAL STATUTES

WFKU - WORLD UNION OF THE KARATE FEDERACIES

Art. 1o - the WORLD UNION Of THE KARATE FEDERACIES, thus assigned for the acronym WFKU, established in 22/01/2005 a civil Society of Porting character, with corporate entity and Patrimonial proper, WITHOUT LUCRATIVE ENDS, with World-wide headquarters in the State of Utah á
Paragraph Only - A WFKU, will be represented Actively and Passively, Judicial and Extrajudicially for the President.

Art. 2o - A WFKU, whose stated period of duration is indeterminate, will second exert its made use activity in this Statute and the pertinent legislações or that they come to appear in elapsing of the time, having for purpose:
a) - To spread out and to stimulate in the World, the practical one of the Karate.
b) - To promote Championships of Karate, in World-wide level.
c) - To recognize and to register in its archive, the examinations of Bands of filiados and its Associates and all the Colorful Bands.
d) - To recognize and to register in its archive, the filiados ones of its Associates, carriers of Black Bands.
e) - To promote Entailed Courses, Congresses, Lectures and other events, respeitantes to the Karate and its Departments.
f) - To guard for the organization and for disciplines and practises of the Karate and the Associations that are filiadas to them.
g) - To fulfill and to make to fulfill to the constant determination of Extraordinary Acts of the National Entities and International Organisms the one that is filiada, as well as forwarded for the Agencies and the Authorities that integrate the Public Power.
h) - To forward to the filiadas ones, with character of obligator adoption, any necessary act to the Organization, functioning and disciplines of the activities of the Karate and od Aggregate Departments.
i) - To apply penalties in the limit of its attributions to the RESPONSIBLE ones for the non-observance of the prescribed and legal statutory norms.
j) - To decide on the promotion of competition of Karate and the Associates who are filiadas to it. (1)
k) - To promote examinations of superior graduation, or either until 2o Dan (NIDAN), through board of examiners formed for this end, from 3o DAN (SANDAN), the Examinations will be carried through by the board of examiners of WFKU World-wide union of the Federacies of Karate.
l) - To intercede, before Being able them Public, in defense of the rights and legitimate interests of the legal people and physical citizens á its jurisdiction.
m) - To practise, in the exercise of the World-wide Direction of the Karate and too much Departments, all the necessary acts accomplishment of its ends. First paragraph - All the acts of alíneas "c" and "d", will have to be approved, also for the Director Technician, and of the President of the World-wide Union of the Federacies of Karate, and, Presidents of the Departments when these more will be graduated than the President of the Entity. Paragraph Second - the norms for achievement of the principles settled in this Article will be prescribed in the Regulations, Regiments, Resolutions, Would carry and Acknowledgments.

CHAPTER II Of the ORGANIZATION Of Them TO BE ABLE And INTERNAL AGENCIES Section

1 - (Of the ORGANIZATION)

Art. 3o - WFKU it is constituted of the Porting Associations filiada.

Art. 4o - the Organization and functioning of WFKU, respects made use in the this Statute, obeying constant norms of the General Regulation and necessary acts. Only Paragraph - WFKU it will not recognize as valid the disposals that regulate the Organization and the functioning of its Filiadas, when conflicting with the norms related in this Article.

Art. 5o - the obligations contracted for WFKU they are not extended the filiadas ones, nor create I tie to them of solidarity. Its financial incomes and resources also proceeding from the obligations that to assume, will be exclusively, used in the accomplishment of its purposes.

Art. 6o - WFKU it will not intervine in businesses or peculiar activities to its Associates.
(2) Art. 7o - No Association could be filiada without making test of the fulfilling of the following requirements:
a) To be legal entity.
b) Possuir compatible internal legislation with the norms adopted for WFKU.
c) Possuir the Business license demanded for law.
d) Ter conditions to dispute the instituted Championships and Matches, with obligator character for WFKU.
e) To make use of installations and conditions techniques for practical of the Karate and other modalities.
f) Ter as responsible Technician, person with capacity recognized technique for WFKU, in the form of the Internal regulation. g) Atender also the norms established for WFKU. Only paragraph - the exercise of the position of who will be fulfilling penalty or suspension, will be interrupted during the respective stated period.

Art. 8o - the elections will be carried through by secret vote, proceeding itself in case from tie up to, to as scrutiny after enters placed of the first place If new scrutiny, if to verify another one ties up to, will be considered elect, between the candidates who to tie up to, most aged. First paragraph - positions in any agency Will be able to occupy of WFKU, any bigger idoneous person of 18 years. Paragraph Second - the participation of foreigners in being able them of WFKU, is conditional to the fulfilment of the Legal Disposals of the Legislações of the Coligados Countries.

Art. 9o - the members of them To be able and agencies will not be, of any form, remunerated for the functions that exert in WFKU.

Art. 10o - the member of any power or agency will be able to take leave of the exercise of the position or function, for not superior stated period the 90 (ninety) uninterrupted days.

CHAPTER III OF THEM TO BE ABLE INTERNAL AGENCIES

Art. 11o - They are to be able of WFKU. a) the General meeting; b) the Statutory audit committee and Advisory; c) the Presidency; d) and the Commission of Ethics and Disciplines. (3)

CHAPTER IV OF THE GENERAL MEETING

Art. 12o - the Assembly, consisting of the filiadas Associations is the maximum power of WFKU. First paragraph - Each Association will have right to a vote, independent of the number of branch offices or integrant Bands Black of it. Paragraph Second - the Associations will be represented by its respective Presidents or legal substitutes, or by credential commission agents for the Presidents, by means of officiate for specific ends, being the unipessoal representation Paragraph Third - Associations Founding, that they are those that signs the Act of Foundation of the Entity, will always have its counted votes in double in any Deliberative Assembly where to participate. They do not count in double for effect to reach quorum of I specify.

Art. 13o - the General meeting to congregate it:
1o) - Ordinariamente in the Second fortnight of the month of March of each year stops:
a) To know report of the administrative and financial activities of the previous exercise, presented for the President.
b) Julgar the folloied accounts of the previous exercise of instructed the financial statements and patrimonial with seeming of the Statutory audit committee.
2o) - To each 4 (four) years to choose the President, Vice President Administrativo and the elective members and Substitutes of the Statutory audit committee and Advisory, giving immediate ownership to them for this end, it will be necessary the approval of at least half plus one of the Associations, regularly enrolled in WFKU e registered as Legal entity.
a) - If not reaching the quorum above, new Assembly is convoked for transcorridos 90 days, to choose the new direction again. b) if not reaching again the demanded quorum, is the mandate of the extending previous management per more two years.
3o - Extraordinariamente, in the form foreseen in (Art. 16) being able to be required its invocation: a) For the Fiscal and Advisory Chairman of the board. b) For half plus one of the filiadas Associations. c) For the President of WFKU. (4)

Art. 14o - It still competes to the General meeting:
a) - To fill the vacant offices, assuming this attribution.
b) - To grant headings of President of Honor, Great Meritorious, and honorary Emérito and, the Medal of Merit, observed the established conditions and "quorum" in this Statute.
c) - To authorize the President of WFKU to acquire, to alienate or to record the real properties, by means of proposals of the Direction, instructed with seeming of the Statutory audit committee
d) - To delegate to be able special to the President of WFKU.
e) - To suspend of the exercise of the position, any member of the power for elect it, when to occur, established suspicion of irregular behavior in the performance of the mandate, for the unextendable stated period of 45 (forty and five) days, by means of the approval of at least 2/3 of the regularly enrolled Federacies in WFKU.
f) - To dismiss any member of the power for elect it, by means of the approval of at least 2/3 of the filiadas Federacies, regularly enrolled in WFKU.
g) - To remodel the Statute, in all or part, for proper initiative or proposal of the President, by means of the approval of at least 3/4 of the regularly enrolled Associations in WFKU. h) - To interpret the Statute in last instance.
i) - To decide on the extinguishing of WFKU, for proper initiative or proposal of the Direction, by means of and approval of at least 3/4 (three rooms of the filiadas ones, in day with the statutory requirements. Occurring the extinguishing, all the goods of WFKU, will be reverted for the Institutions of Aid the Devoid People.
j) the concession of headings and medals will be preceded of proposals firmed by the Direction, or at the very least, for 2/3 (two terços) of the filiadas Federacies, following orientation of the Internal regulation. First paragraph - the quorum that demands the approval of 3/4 of the filiadas Federacies, must be interpreted as in the following example: Existing 10 Federacies regularly enrolled: one calculates 3/4 of 10) = 7,5 being therefore necessary 8 votes to take care of The same to the quorum demanded in relation to the quorum of 2/3.
Paragraph according to WORLD UNION Of THE KARATE FEDERACIES - WFKU, will forward an official relation of all the Federacies, regularly enrolled in the Entity and apt to participate of the Assemblies convoked for the Federacy, 30 days before the accomplishment of the General meetings and Extraordinary. The same in relation to the regularly enrolled athletes in the Entity and apt to concur to any elective office. Paragraph Third - the General meeting will elaborate the Internal regulation of WFKU. (5)

Art. 15o - the General meeting will be convoked by the President, in the stated period of 5 (five) days to count of the request of at the very least half of its members, or of the Statutory audit committee.

Art. 16o - the invocation of the General meeting will become for publication in periodical of great State circulation, or for addressed letter to its filiadas ones with minimum antecedence of 10 (ten) days. Only paragraph - the invocation will mention in necessary terms the date, the hour and the place of the accomplishment of the Assembly, specifying obligatorily, the subjects that will have to be treated.

Art. 17o - the Assembly will install itself with the attendance of half plus one of the representatives of its filiadas, in first invocation, but it will be able to congregate in the same day, passed 30 (thirty) minutes, in Second invocation, to deliberate with any I number, safe in the hypotheses where demanded determined "quorum". Only paragraph - the deliberations of the Assembly always will be taken by majority of the votes, saved statutory requirement of "special quorum".

CHAPTER V Of the STATUTORY AUDIT COMMITTEE And ADVISORY

Art. 18o - O Conselho Fiscal (CF) will be elect for the General meeting (GAC) of four in four years simultaneously with the President and the Vice President of WFKU, will have three effective members and three substitutes. Only paragraph - the president of the CE will be aleito in the same General meeting

Art. 19o - He competes to the Statutory audit committee through its President: a) To present to (GAC) seeming on the rocking of the Direction through the rendering of accounts of the Treasure-house with relation to the exercise looser. b) Denunciar (GAC) the administrative errors or any breaking of this Statute or the Legislation in vigor. e) In the case of the previous item, to convoke (GAC), presenting minute report. d) Emitir to seem of approval any expenditure to be effected by the Federacy, whose prescription has still not entered in the box of the Entity. e) To emit to seem suspensive for period of up to 45 days suspending any financial activity of the Federacy. The treasure-house will not be able to effect expenses, payments or to emit checks in this period, preserving unbroken the surplus in the box of the Entity. (6)

Art. 20o - the CF will always be congregated that it will be necessary to fulfill with its attributions, deliberating for vote of simple majority of its members.

CHAPTER VI Of the PRESIDENCY

Art. 21o - the Presidency of WFKU, is composed in President and the Vice President, elect for the General meeting, with mandate of 4 (four) years, being allowed its consecutive re-election, in accordance with the will of the majority of the filiadas ones.

Art. 22o - To the President, beyond the too much attributions prescribed in this Statute, it competes:
a) To supervise, to co-ordinate, to direct and to fiscalize administrative, economic, financial and porting the activities of WFKU.
b) Supervisionar the staff the service remunerated in the Entity and consequencia, to nominate, to assign, to commission, to contract or to rescind, to grant vacation, to praise to premiar, to open inquiry and to restore processes
c) Apresentar á Annual shareholders meeting, in each one of its annual meetings, reports detailed of the administration, carried through in the previous exercise together with rocking of the economic and financial movement, and seeming of the Statutory audit committee and Advisory.
d) Cumprir and to make to fulfill, in its powers and agencies the current law.
e) To nominate and to excuse the members of the Direction, to assign to assessors and components of the Commissions that to institute.
f) Fiscalizar the collection of the prescription and to authorize the payment of the expenditures observing the budget in execution and the limits of credits you add.
g) Abrir credits you add, by means of seeming of the Statutory audit committee.
h) Assinar headings, checks, receipts or any other documents that constitute financial obligation obeyed the disposals of this Statute and the Internal Regulation.
i) Celebrar accords and you wake up that they matter in commitments for WFKU, with approval of the Extraordinary General meeting.
j) Autorizar the advertising of the originary acts of them to be able and agencies.
k) For in execution the power to decide acts of them to be able and to accomplish the applied penalties for the same ones, in the sphere of its attributions.
1) Providenciar the guard and the conservation of the real properties of WFKU, by means of authorization of the General meeting, hearing the Statutory audit committee.
m) Depositar and to determine that they are deposited in up to two working days, in the current account or passbook de.poupança of WFKU, values in species or headings of any importance, on behalf of the Entity.
n) Presidir the board meetings.
o) Rever penalty that has tax, also disclosing them or communicating excepting them the ones that will have origin in deliberation the Advice of Ethics. (7)
p) Aplicar to the legal people or physical citizens to the jurisdiction of WFKU, the cabíveis sanctions prescribed in the Statute, the General Regulation, or any another act of the Entity, excepted the abilities of the too much powers.
q) Transigir, to give up or to grant to moratorium, hearing the Statutory audit committee.
r) Submeter to the Direction in the stated period of 60 (sixty) days, before the closing of each exercise, the proposal of budget to invigorate in the following exercise.
s) Praticar any excluded acts of its explicita ability, by means of delegation of being able of the General meeting.
t) Franquear to the Advice of Ethics and Statutory audit committee, all the acts and information on its administration, that always requested.
u) immediate Dar fulfilment the decisions, deliberations and impugnations, presented for the Advice of Ethics. First paragraph - To the President the right to counsel in the General meeting is assured when its will be in cause any act or of the Direction.

Art. 23o - the Vice President of WFKU, is the substitute of the President. Only paragraph - the Vice chosen President will be able to play any executive power of the President in transitory character, when for this commission agent in express act.

Art. 24o - In case of impediment of the President and the Vice President, or Avoidance of the respective positions, the Directors of the Departments successively will be called to the exercise of the Presidency, as the order previously established by the President, for the maximum stated period of 90 (ninety) days.
First paragraph - the vacant of the position of President to occur in the last year of the mandate, the Vice President will complement the period, in contrary case, the Assembly will fill being, in this in case that, also indicated a Vice President.
Paragraph Second - to occur the Avoidance in the two positions of the Presidency, will have election for fulfilling of the same ones, saved if the fact to occur in last the 3 (three) months of mandate.
Paragraph Third - to occur the resignation of the Vice President, specifically for not agreeing to the administration of the President, during the first year of the mandate, it will have to communicate for writing the Statutory audit committee, to who it will after fit to seem favorable of the agency, to convoke Extraordinary General meeting, to who it will fit to judge the facts and even though to choose new President and Vice President.

CHAPTER VII OF THE DIRECTION (8)

Art. 25o - Each one of the members will exert privative functions of direction in the Department that to fulfill to manage to it, in the form of the general regulation, with the contribution of subdirectors, when necessary also nominated by the President.

Art. 26o - In case of impediment up to 90 (ninety) days of any Director, its attributions will be exerted by the respective subdirector in exercise, as assignment of the President.

Art. 27o - The Direction Will congregate itself. in usual character, monthly, and extraordinariamente, when convoked for the President.

Art. 28o - the members of the Direction do not answer personally for the obligations that to contract on behalf of WFKU, in the practical one of regular act of its management, but assume this responsibility for the damages that to cause in virtue of infraction of the Statute and the Law.

Art. 29o - the Direction of WFKU, without damage of the ability attributed to the President, decentralize-if-á. in the following Directions: E all the Presidents of Departments. a) 1o - Bursar b) 2o - Bursar c) 1o - Secretary d) 2o - Managing Secretary e) of Public Relations f) Managing Technician g) Managing Managing Doctor h) of Managing Arbitration i) of Legal Managing J) Competition Only paragraph - the Direction of WFKU, will be able to suggest modification in the denomination of the Departments.

Art. 30o - Of the TREASURE-HOUSE - Competes to the Bursar watching over for the faithful fulfilment of the statutory norms in relation the financial part, keeping in day cash register book, in which they will consist all clearly the financial movement of WFKU, as well as all the evidential documents of such movements, duly warned to be made responsible criminally by any action or omission that comes to bring damage for Entity or third.
First paragraph - the Bursar will have to manage its folder in accordance with the rules of law and statutory, having to denounce the Statutory audit committee, any fact that has knowledge that he is contrary to the established one in the Statute. (9)
Paragraph Second - he is forbidden to effect any expenditure, without that provision of deep liquidating it exists in box. Bonanza, existing to seem favorable of the Statutory audit committee, expenditures could be effected, to be covered with prescriptions to be received later, folloied from detailed report.
Paragraph Third - the daily pay-dated check emission, or the promissory note signature is forbidden on behalf of the Federacy.
Paragraph Room - Any amount received in money, will have to be deposited in the account of the Federacy, in a maximum stated period of 02 working days, to count of the act of receiving. No transaction could be effected without necessary vouchers and receipts.
Paragraph the Fifth - financial movement of WFKU, will be effected through the Treasure-house, with the current opening of account to be put into motion by the President of the Entity, Bursar and a member of the Statutory audit committee, always with the signature of two of the members above cited. Paragraph Sixth - the Bursar will have to send temporary balance sheet until day 5 of each month, to the Statutory audit committee, contends all the financial movement of the Federacy in the previous month.
Paragraph Seventh - For the accomplishment of expenditures, acquisitions or act of contract of services, above of 200 UFIR that are not foreseen and approved in the Budget will be necessary to carry through taken of price enters at least 3 idoneous firms and to have to seem favorable of the Statutory audit committee.
Paragraph Eighth - the Bursar will deposit until day 5 of each month, in joint saving put into motion such as the current account, half of the surplus that to exist in box, not engaged with payment of effected expenditures already, to constitute the Reserve Technique of the Federacy, except if this value will be inferior the 20 UFIR. Paragraph Nineth - the Reserve Technique of WFKU, foreseen in the previous paragraph could be used to subsidize the activities ends of the Union, when it will not have other prescription sources, with seeming favorable of the Statutory audit committee. Its main objective, to put, is, to defray the acquisition of the proper headquarters of the Union.

Art. 31o - Of the GENERAL SECRETARY - Is ability and duties of the General Secretary:
a) To have under its immediate direction all the services of expedients and documentations of the Entity
b) Fiscalizar and to guide the administrative services as Internal regulation.
c) Assinar with the President, after organizing the Expedient all.

Art. 32o - Of the MEDICAL DIRECTOR - Competes to the Medical Director providing team that folloies it and it assists it in the competitions and that it guarantees the attendance to the athletes during the event giving eventual first socorros to the same ones. (10)

Art. 33o - Of the DIRECTOR TECHNICIAN - the Director Technician will be a position assigned for the President and will be obligatorily, the black band more graduated its Country and registered in WFKU e with recognized graduation for WFKU The biggest graduation for the position will not only be demanded, when the proper President of the Federacy will be graduated of the Style, recognized for WFKU With the following attributions: a) To watch over for the standardization of the Entailed Style WFKU, and to supervise the level technician of the filiados ones in order to always keep the demanded standard the National and International level. b) Ministrar courses of updates techniques placing filiados the pair of the updates in the scope of the Karate and its Partners with other modalities, National and International. c) Indicar to the President the commission technique of the National Election of Karate and its Departments being less graduated than the President of the Federacy. d) Nomear freely the Commission Technique of the World-wide Election of Karate being, more graduated than the President of the Federacy.

Art. 34o - Of the DIRECTOR OF COMPETITIONS - Competes to the director of competitions the following functions: a) To form a team of organization of competitions. b) Verificar with antecedence the event places assuring the necessary security and conditions for the accomplishment of exactly. c) Providenciar the necessary material, for the accomplishment of an event of Karate and other Departments. d) Manter permanent contact with the Director of Arbitration and the related people the competitions.

Art. 35o - Of the DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS - Competes to the Director of public relations actively working in any activity of public relations or elaboration of projects of propagandas and diffusion of the Karate and Departments, with the objective to raise the name of WFKU, the level of the said, writing and televisionada press.

Art. 36o - THEY ARE ATRIBUIÇÕES Of The LEGAL DIRECTOR: a) - To assist the President b) - To defend the interests of WFKU, always that they lock up legal substance.

CHAPTER VIII OF THE COOPERATION AGENCIES

SECTION I - Of The ARBITRATION DIRECTION (11)

Art. 37o - the Director of Arbitration will be nominated by the President of WFKU, and indicates five (5) members approved for the Direction, that will constitute the Advice of Arbitrators who is sovereign in all its decisions referring the arbitration.

Art. 38o - the Director of arbitration will have the following attributions:
a) - To indicate the members for the Advice of arbitrators.
b) - To indicate a Commission of arbitration with the objective of the same o assists in the courses, credential and supervision of board members in the competitions.
c) - To give the arbitration courses.
d) - To organize examinations of credenciamento of Arbitrators to the National level.

Art. 39o - the Advice of Arbitrators together with the Director of Arbitration will have as function to deliberate on all the subjects that will be pertinent to the arbitration, fiscalizing in the scope of its activities the faithful fulfilment of the rules of the Karate and the established Coligados Departments in regulation proper and approved in General meeting and the emanated ones of WFKU.

SECTION II - OF THE ETHICS COMMISSION ART.

Art. 40o - the Commission of Ethics will be constituted by the President of the World-wide Union of the Federacies of Karate and more nine (9) Filiados members of the Federacies of bigger graduation of the Style, independent to be or not members of the Direction. If it will have ties up to of the graduation, most aged is graduated. The vacant appeared for resign or exclusion, will be completed to put rigorous order of graduation. FIRST PARAGRAPH - the Commission of Ethics is a permanent agency and it does not get excited for the end of a management and beginning of another one. It will occur changes in its members, for suspension, only resigns, exclusion or alteration in the graduation order. PARAGRAPH SECOND - the President of WFKU it will have to transcribe of the book of Register of Black Bands, the relation of the nine (9) graduated athletes more when it will have any alteration. The names of this relation will be able to suffer impugnation, only of the members of the proper Commission, of superior graduation to the impugnated name. The name that to receive (02) two impugnations will be excluded from the Commission. The name that to receive only (01) an impugnation will go for judgment for the Commission. (12) Paragraph Room - the Commission of Ethics will choose enters its members of temporary or permanent form, its representative, with the function to establish the linking between the Commission and the too much agencies of the Federacy, being received the requests and transmitting its deliberations. Paragraph Fifth - the Commission will have to register in proper Act book, all its meetings, being necessary the approval of at least (06) members, so that its decisions have deliberation force. Contrary case its decisions will have recommendation character.

Art. 41o - the Commission of Ethics will be congregated asked for of the President or the Advice of Arbitrators, or the Statutory audit committee and still for request of (03) of its members, in all the chances where it has necessity of its effective participation.

Art. 42o - the Commission of Ethics will have the following attributions: a) To judge and if necessary, to attribute penalties to all filiados of (WFKU, whose behavior is contrary to the principles of Ethics and the Budô, also of its proper members being able excluiz them of the Commission. b To analyze the behavior of the filiados ones in order to preserve the principles of the Order, disciplines and respect for the hierarchy, basic in the teachings of the Karate and too much Departments to interpret the Statutes of the Entity. c) necessary Examinar and if, to indeferir the order of filiation of any candidate to the Union. d) Julgar the inserted resources and penalties applied to any member of WFKU. e) The Commission of Ethics will not be able to apply the penalty of disconnection of WFKU to the elect members of the direction for the General meeting in the exercise of its mandates. It will be able suspends them of its activities for up to 30 days. Only paragraph - Of the Judgments pronounced for the Commission of Ethics resource will not fit, as tradition consecrated in the Karate-Dô, that has for basic principles: a) Respect for the Hierarchy. c) loyalty stops with the Style that Represents. d) irreproachable Behavior in the Karate and the particular Life. e) Não.aceitação of any attitude anti-sportsman in events, courses matches and competitions.

CHAPTER IX Of ASSOCIATIONS FILIADAS - ITS RIGHTS And DUTIES

SECTION I Of the RIGHTS (13)

Art. 43o - They are right of the filiadas Associations: a) To conduct itself for proper, not conflicting laws with norms of Superior Hierarchy. b) Participar of the General meeting c) Disputar the Championships and Matches promoted for WFKU, in the form of the respective regulations. d) Solicitar guiding of expedients to the agencies of the public power, or to the National Organisms and Entities. e) Credenciar Delegated that represents it WFKU, with being able of agent chief executives, when responsible for all its acts. f) Obter the register of its associates in. WFKU. Only paragraph - the Association to indicate the competition, filiado of its academy that is not correctly registered in WFKU, or is that one in debit with the update of the Cards of Member, the indication will be rejected.

SECTION II OF THE DUTIES

Art. 44o - They are duties of the filiadas Associations: Manter porting relations with the other filiadas b To fulfill and to make to fulfill the disposals of this Statute, laws, accessories of WFKU, determination of this emanated e, the norms lowered for the competent Public Agencies that WFKU, obedience must. c To direct for intermediary of WFKU, the requests and communications that will have to make the Public Authorities. d the Associations will have to pay WFKU, until the last working day of the month. the contributions and taxes and/or another fee the one that will be obliged inside of the stated periods foreseen in the disposals that if establish. e the filiadas associations will have to participate of at least 2/3 (two terços) of the events carried through for the Confederation without which they will not have right the vote in the annual shareholders meetings or in the special meetings. f the filiadas Federacies will have to participate obligatorily of the World-wide and National Championship of Karate, organized for WFKU, fitting to who not to participate the penalties foreseen in the Statutes and the Internal regulation of WFKU. CHAPTER - X Of the EXAMINATIONS OF GRADUATION SUPEROR (FAIXAS PRETAS) And Of the EXAMINATIONS OF INFERIOR GRADUACÃO (UNTIL 1o KYU- BROWN BAND)

Art. 45o - the examinations of superior graduation (Black Bands) will be carried through by WFKU inside of its legal ability, two times per year in the dates previously established in the official calendar. (14) First paragraph - the Board of examiners will be, composed for at the very least four examiners, indicated for the President of the Federacy if this it will be graduated of the Style, or Director Technician if this will be graduated of the Style. The examiners will have to possess obligatorily, superior graduation to who are being examined, recognized for WFKU. Paragraph Second - A WFKU, will be able to request examiners of other Federacies, filiadas WFKU, to complete the Board of examiners. Paragraph Third - the Federacy will have, to communicate WFKU, the relation of athletes who will give examination for graduation from 3o DAN, establishing of joint form the date of the examinations, as well as the composition of the board of examiners, for ends of recognition for WFKU, of the gotten graduations. Paragraph Room - by any reason impeditive on the part of WFKU, this will not be able to compose the board of examiners, exactly having been taken care of to all the norms of this Entity; the Federacy will be able to prorogue the date of the examinations for a period of up to 12 months.

Art. 46o - they will only be able to give to examination for black band the carriers of 1o kyu (brown band), with minimum lack of permanence of 12 months in 1o Kyu and that they have carried through two courses of arbitration in (WFKU as brown band, with participation proven in at the very least four events (official championships of WFKU, as board member. They must still have to seem favorable of the Commission of Ethics.

Art. 47o - the examinations of inferior graduation until 1o Kyu (brown band) carried through by the filiadas Associations WFKU, the same ones will only be recognized if to communicate to the President daWFKU, with ten days of antecedence the date of the examination, and after the examination will have ten days to send the report of the approved ones with the had taxes. The examiner who will sign the report, which will have to be sent WFKU, must have minimum graduation of 3o degree and the same to be in day with its obligations before WFKU. First paragraph - A WFKU, will be able to send a member of the direction to follow the cited examination. Paragraph Second - the responsible one for the association that will not be carrying of minimum graduation of 3o Dan (3o degree in the black band), will have to request a responsible one for the examination to Mr. President of WFKU, that then it will indicate the examiner, carrier of minimum graduation 3o Dan.

Art. 48o - No associate or filiado member á WFKU, will have authorization to carry through examinations of superior graduation (black band), fitting to the those that to disregard this determination, the penalties foreseen in the Statutes and the Internal regulation of WFKU.

Art. 49o - For the candidates to the examination of superior graduation in WFKU, they will be demanded beyond the qualification technique and necessary lack, the following requirements: (15) a) - Certified of good behavior and good repute firmed by (one) black band with not inferior graduation 3o Dan (3o degree of black band) filiado to WFKU, excepting that this (certified) will only be necessary case the Titular Professor of the association he is of inferior graduation 3o Dan. b) - Evidence of that it does not possess criminal antecedents. c) - Test written of common knowledges on Karate. d) - To have, comprovadamente by means of certificate, minimum degree of instruction the level of 1o Pertaining to school degree.

SECTION III - OF THE PENALTIES

Art. 50o - the Associates and its filiados will be citizens the following penalties: a) - Warning; b) - Fine; c) - Suspension; d) - Degradation of Graduation acquired through examination for the Federacy; e) - Disconnection. First paragraph - Beyond the compensation equivalent to the actual damage it will be passível of fine penalty, damage of other penalties that in the case to fit á Associated or its filiado, that to cause material damages to the Federacy. Paragraph Second - the suspension penalty Will fit, that will not exceed 12 (twelve) months, when the Associate or its filiado: a) - he will have been punished for previous lack with the fine penalty; b) - To infringe any Statutory disposal or any decision of the administrative agencies of the Federacy; c) - To proceed incorrectly in the Federacy or meeting of any nature that that one to organize, is of its dependences; d) - To disregard members of the Direction or the Statutory audit committee when in the exercise of its functions. e) - To disrespect orders of Controllers, Technician and Instructors of the Federacy. in the exercise of its attributions; f) - Enrolled or assigned person, officially, for any competition, to refuse its participation, without justified cause; g) - not to accept the decisions of the Arbitrators in competitions that attend or integrate: h) - not to indicate á Federacy. at the very least one general 2 judge of squares or assistant so that these assist in the services, during two consecutive Championships or matches, when requested for the Federacy. Paragraph Third - the not exempt suspension the Association or Filiado, of the payment of the which had contributions, but hinders the exercise to it of all its social rights. Paragraph Room - the penalty of Disconnection Fits, for the Associate or its filiado. a) - That to leave just without reason, up to 90 (ninety) days of the date marked for the repayment, any divides stops with the Federacy; b) - That it will be relapsing in the Paragraph (20) of this article; c) - That to deviate capital assets of the Federacy; (16) d) - That to promote inside or is of the Federacy, when it will be representing it, directly or indirectly, conflicts that attempt against against its good name; e) - That for the behavior presented before the a society, to demonstrate that it delayed the ethical and philosophical principles of the Karate Dô. f) - That not to participate of at least 1/3 (terços) of the official events carried through by the Federacy. (Section IV) Of the APLICACÃO Of the PENALTIES And the RESOURCES

Art. 51o - the penalties foreseen in the previous Section, will be applied by the President of the Federacy, with resource the Commission of Ethics, in accordance with the Art. (40). First paragraph - the warning could be applied by any Director. Paragraph Second - For application of the penalties of suspension and disconnection, except for the case contained in (Art. 46) the interested person will be able to present defense in the stated period of 5 (five) days, being been the criterion of the Presidency, the required external Tests. Paragraph Third - the stated period, for instruction of the process will not be able to exceed of 15 (fifteen) days. Paragraph Room - Of the penalty imposition, resource will fit, in the stated period of 5 (five) days counted of the notification of its application. Paragraph Fifth - the resources will not have supersedeas and they will not be processings, they will have been written in terms desrespeitosos, or presented destempo. Paragraph Sixth - In the stated period of 30 (thirty) days, counted of its interposition the final solution of the known resources will have to be pronounced.

CHAPTER XI OF THE GENERAL DISPOSICÕES

Art. 52o - the Associations and its filiados will not answer, exactly subsidiariamente for the obligations contracted for WFKU.

Art. 53o - the Associations possess solidary responsibility for all the acts come from its filiados.

Art. 54o - it will be allowed in the General meetings of WFKU, the vote for power of attorney, since that granted for a filiada person WFKU, and representing only (01) Associate.

Art. 55o - the Associations in regularization process, when authorized for the General Chairman of the board, will be able to participate of the same ones, however, without right the vote. (17)

Art. 56o - the examinations of Superior Graduation from 3o Dan, always will be carried through privately, without the presence of the public in general and athletes who are not Black bands.

Art. 57o - Any in case that that eventually it is not understood in this Statute or in the Internal regulation of WFKU, always it will be decided in General meeting convoked by the President of WFKU.

Art. 58o - the Statutes could be remodelled to any foreseen time as in Art 14, letter (h), when it will have written agreement of the President of WFKU with recognized firm.

Art. 59o - These Statutes enter in vigor in the Act of its approval for the general meeting of Foundation of the Entity.

Utah, 22 of July of 2005.

Prof. Peter Moreira Rasp. (President WFKU - World Union of the Federacies of Karate)

Grand Master Carlos Hisses (Vice President WFKU - World Union of the Federacies of Karate)

 

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