CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I NAME
The name of this organization shall be the Alabama Society of Nuclear Medicine, herein referred to as the ASNM.

ARTICLE II OBJECTIVES
To establish and maintain an organization of physicians, technologists, and scientists of high standing with a common interest in the scientific and clinical disciplines concerned with the diagnostic, therapeutic, and investigational use of radionuclides;
To foster meetings of the organization for the purpose of communicating and discussing knowledge of nuclear phenomena as they apply to the better understanding and control of disease;
To disseminate information concerning Nuclear Medicine by encouraging scientific and professional publications;
To strive to better the welfare of all by maintaining and advancing the highest possible standards of education, research, and practice of Nuclear Medicine;
To help inform the general public about benefits of the field of Nuclear Medicine.

ARTICLE III STRUCTURE
The ASNM shall be a nonprofit, scientific, and educational organization with its own officers, dues, and bylaws; however it is patterned after the constitution bylaws of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (hereinafter referred to as the SNM), the Society of Nuclear Medicine-Technologist Section (hereinafter referred to as the SNM-TS), and the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine-Technologist Section (hereinafter referred to as the SECSNM-TS). The ASNM is affiliated and represented to the aforementioned organizations by our delegate at the SECSNM annual meeting.