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  1. NAME

    The name of this body shall be taken as Pertubuhan Kejuruteraan Jalan Malaysia (Road Engineering Association of Malaysia) (hereinafter referred to as REAM).

  2. REGISTERED OFFICE

    The registered office of REAM shall be at the office of the Director-General of Public Works, Public Works Department Malaysia Headquarters, Jalan Sultan Salahuddin, 50582 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia or at such place or places as may from time to time be decided on by the Council. The registered place of business of REAM shall not be changed without the prior approval of the Registrar of Societies.

  3. OBJECTIVES

    The objectives of REAM shall be:

    1. to promote and advance the science and practice of road engineering and related professions

    2. to encourage communications between persons charged with the technical responsibility for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads and allied structures

    3. to obtain and diffuse among the members, information on road engineering and related matters affecting the profession, subject to prior approval from the authority concerned to print, sell, publish, issue and circulate the records of transactions of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (hereinafter referred to as REAAA) or any papers, periodicals, books, circulars and other literary understandings or any extracts there from as may seem conducive to any of these objects

    4. to educate and seek to improve, extend and elevate the technical and general knowledge of members and persons concerned with road engineering

    5. to serve as a focal point for exchange of ideas related to road engineering

    6. to conduct, encourage and collate research in road engineering

    7. to formulate and establish standards, guidelines and specifications for road engineering in Malaysia

    8. to establish, form and maintain an index of available existing literature and articles of interest in connection with road engineering

    9. to co-operate, as may seem conducive to any of these objects, with national and international organisations and to support and supplement their work

    10. to foster membership in Malaysia and to seek means to assure benefits for Malaysian REAAA members; and

    11. to foster and support Malaysian participation in the activities of REAAA

  4. MEMBERSHIP

    1. Membership of REAM shall be exclusive to all grades of current members of the REAAA who are recorded in its Register of Members as residents in Malaysia.

    2. Membership in REAM shall be of seven grades: Honorary, Ordinary, Institutional, Affiliate, Associate, Life and Student.

    3. Membership rights and privileges:
      1. Each Ordinary, Institutional and Life Member shall be entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to membership vote
      2. The vote of an Institutional Member shall be exercised through its authorised representative.
      3. Election to the Offices of the Association shall be the privilege of the Ordinary, Life and Institutional Members only.
      4. Honorary, Associate, Affiliate and Student Members shall be entitled to al! rights and privileges of members in the Association except the right to vote and hold office in the Association


  5. MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS

    The requirements for admission shall be:

    1. Honorary Membership
      A person of outstanding eminence and long experience in the science and practice of some phase of road engineering and has contributed outstanding services to REAM may be elected to Honorary Membership on recommendation of the Council and the approval by members carrying a simple majority vote by ballot.

    2. Ordinary Membership
      A person who is professionally qualified or has a minimum of five years experience in road related field and who is actively involved in the science and practice of road engineering.

    3. Institutional Membership
      A professional institution, association, firm, company, organisation or other similar body whose activities include the science and practice of road engineering or are concerned with road engineering and related professions.

    4. Affiliate Membership
      An institution, association or organisation whose main objectives are similar to those of REAM and who are willing to reciprocate a similar class of membership with REAM.

    5. Associate Membership
      A person who is keenly interested in the science and practice of road engineering but is not eligible for election to other grades of membership.

    6. Life Membership
      A person who is professionally qualified or has a minimum of five years experience in road related field and who is actively involved in the science and practice of road engineering or any elected individual member by payment of an up-front fee, the level of which is to be decided by the Council from time to time and listed in clause 7 (c) or any elected individual members by being active for more than fifteen (15) continuous years and has reached the age of 65 years.

    7. Student Membership
      A student shall not be less than eighteen 18 years of age and shall produce evidence to the satisfaction of the Council that he/she is studying in a recognised university or college of equivalent academic standing and that he/she has obtained written approval from the dean or head of department of the university/college permitting him/her to be a member of the Association as stipulated in the Universities & University College Act (Amendment) 1975,

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