2025 MFTHBA Rulebook

7 Bylaws of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association, Inc. (MFTHBA) ARTICLE I Section 1. Offices. A. Principal Office. The corporation shall have and continuously maintain in the State of Missouri a registered office and a registered agent whose office is identical with such registered office. The registered agent is Tommy Hayes, the duly elected Secretary-Treasurer of the MFTHBA and the registered office location is RR 6 Box 67690, Ava, Missouri, the mailing address is P. O. Box 1027, Ava, Missouri 65608. B. Other Offices. The corporation also may have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Missouri as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require. ARTICLE II Purposes and Powers, Parliamentary Procedures, and Records. Section 1. Purposes and Powers. The purposes of the corporation are: A. To maintain registry records by collecting, recording and preserving the pedigrees of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse, along with the breed’s history; B. To develop and perpetuate suitable and proper standards for the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse while maintaining the integrity of the breed; C. To promote the improvement, use, exhibition and enjoyment of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse; together with all other matters necessary to further the interests of the breed. In furtherance of the foregoing purposes, the MFTHBA shall have and may exercise all of the rights and powers given to nonprofit corporations under the Missouri Nonprofit Corporation Act. Section 2. Parliamentary Governance. The hierarchy of governance will be: 1) Law, 2) Restated Articles of Incorporation, 3) Bylaws, 4) Rules, Policies and Procedures, and 5) Roberts Rules of Order, newest revised edition. Section 3. Records. The corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of accounts and shall also keep minutes of the proceedings of its members and Board of Directors and shall keep at the registered or principal office a record giving the names and addresses of the members. All books and records of the corporation may be inspected by any member, or his agent or attorney for any proper purpose at any reasonable time.