Society or societies definition
Society or societies means the cane growers cooperative society or societies.
Society or societies is used in this document to refer to these two organizations collectively. They will be listed separately by name as appropriate. The name OCEANS is used to refer to all conferences in the series independent of year or venue location. The term “General Chair(s)” in the document refers to the person(s) responsible (co-responsible) for the conference. The acronym LOC refers to the Local Oceans Committee and the acronym JOAB refers to the Joint Oceans Administrative Board. The OCEANS Conference is the flagship technical conference and exhibition of the Societies and the premier conference for the ocean community. The OCEANS Conference Operational Policy Manual and any subsequent revisions is provided to the local organizing committee when approached to submit a proposal to host an OCEANS Conference. This Manual, along with copies of any standing contracts, provide general direction to the conference committee, and defines relationship as well as the working protocol between JOAB, the LOC, and supporting Contractors. The Societies have mutually entered into multi-year contracts for OCEANS Conference support services and web site hosting. Our standing multi-year OCEANS contracts for conference services shall be utilized by each LOC. Utilization of our standing contracts by the LOC provides your committee access to professional expert resources needed to plan and execute your program, establishes conference continuity year to year, and reduces financial and legal risk. The LOC General Chair(s) and its financial chair must be members of MTS and or OES. Only members of one of these Societies may be appointed to serve in these positions, by the Society presidents, on a Local OCEANS conference Committee. The LOC, whose focus is to manage the local content of each conference, agrees to work under the direction of ▇▇▇▇. The Societies will provide from time to time specific society expectations for results, but will allow the local committee to conduct the conference within the limitations of the MOA, the Guidelines or any written instructions from the Societies delivered to the LOC. Since each LOC consists of members who as volunteers may require a different combination of contractor services, the local committee will select those additional support services from the applicable conference support contractors.
Society or societies means primary co-operative societies registered under the Act except the primary urban co-operative banks;