Art.1 – Name-seat-duration
Pursuant to Legislative Decree 117 of 2017, (hereinafter referred to as the "Third Sector Code"), and the provisions of the Civil Code on the subject of associations, the unrecognized Association called "ViviMonferrato" is established, indicated below also as “Association”.The Association has its registered office in the Municipality of Lerma. Any variation of the registered office within the Municipality of Lerma does not involve a change in the by-laws, except for a specific resolution by the Board of Directors and subsequent communication to the competent offices. It intends to operate in the territory of the Piedmont region with particular interest for the provinces of Alessandria, Asti and Vercelli, and, if useful for the achievement of its corporate purposes, also at a national level. The Association may set up sections or secondary offices. The Association has unlimited duration.
Art.2 - Use in the denomination of the acronym "APS" or of the indication of "social promotion association" and Third Sector Entity "ETS"
Starting from the establishment of the Single National Register of the Third Sector (RUNTS), and once the Association has been registered in the appropriate section of this, the acronym "APS" or the indication of "social promotion association" must be included in the company name.
Art.3 - Purposes
1. The Association is non-partisan and non-denominational, and bases its institutional and associative activity on the constitutional principles of democracy, social participation and voluntary work.
2. The Association pursues, non-profit, civic, solidarity and social utility purposes, through the exercise, exclusively or principally, of one or more activities of general interest in favor of its members, their families or of third parties. The activities of the association and its aims are inspired by principles of equal opportunities between men and women and respectful of the inviolable rights of people and animals
3. It operates as envisaged by article 5 paragraph 1 of the Third sector code in the following sectors:
a) organization and management of cultural, artistic or recreational activities of social interest, including activities, including publishing, to promote and disseminate the culture and practice of volunteering and activities of general interest (letter i)
b) organization and management of tourist activities of social, cultural or religious interest (letter k)
The Association pursues the following aims:
a) to encourage knowledge of the history, art and culture of the Piedmonte’s territory of Monferrato in all its forms and in respect and protection of the environment.
b) promote and support any cultural, tourist and economic activity that guarantees and pursues characteristics of eco-sustainability;
c) to encourage and disseminate an ecological culture in the approach of the territory by the members and third parties with whom it will collaborate,
d) promote tourism with pets (canines, felines, equines) in compliance with their ethological-behavioral characteristics, protecting their rights.
Art.4 - Activities
1. To achieve the aforementioned purposes, the Association may carry out the following activities:
a) Carry out cultural and tourist activities aimed at getting to know the history, culture and art of the Monferrato area, and beyond, following eco-sustainability criteria, using low-impact means of transport as much as possible - trains, buses, hybrid cars , bicycles, animal traction and on foot - and, when possible, also suitable for people and/or family groups accompanied by pets;
b) provide advice to public and private bodies for the creation and management of spaces dedicated to animals in the places to be visited;
c) give indications for the correct management of animals by owners in public and private contexts,
d) organize training courses, workshops, seminars or conferences, laboratories, conferences on: history, art, culture, ethology and related topics
e) publish magazines both in paper and digital form
f) manage and possess, hire or lease any type of structure, both immovable and mobile,
g) make collaboration agreements with associations or third parties in general in the specific sectors necessary for the implementation of the social purposes
h) carry out fundraising activities also in an organized and continuous form, also through public solicitation or through the sale or provision of goods or services of modest value, using own resources and those of third parties, including volunteers and employees, in compliance with the principles of truth, transparency and correctness in relations with supporters and the public, in accordance with the guidelines adopted by decree of the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, having consulted the control room referred to in article 97 and the National Council of the Third Sector
i) carry out any other activity not specifically mentioned in this list but in any case connected with the previous ones, provided that it is consistent with the institutional purposes and suitable for pursuing their achievement.
2. Pursuant to Article 6 of the Third Sector Code, the Association may also carry out activities other than those of general interest, provided that they are secondary and instrumental to the main activity. The determination of the various activities is left to the Governing Council which, observing any resolutions of the shareholders' meeting on the matter, is required to respect the criteria and limits established by the aforementioned Code and by the implementing provisions of the same with respect to the performance of these activities.
Art.5 - Rules on the internal legal system
1. The internal organization of the Association is inspired by criteria of democracy, equal opportunities and equal rights of all members, the association offices are elective and all members can be nominated.
2. There is no difference in treatment between members regarding rights and duties towards the Association.
Art.6 – Members
1. Natural persons of legal age and social promotion associations who, adhering to the institutional purposes of the same, intend to collaborate in their achievement are admitted to join the Association.
3. Membership of the Association is open-ended and cannot be arranged for a temporary period, without prejudice in any case to the right of withdrawal.
Art.7 - Admission procedure
1. For the purpose of joining the Association, anyone who has an interest submits a written request to the Board of Directors, which is the body appointed to decide on admission. In this application it must also be specified that the applicant undertakes to accept the provisions of the Articles of Association and internal regulations, to observe the provisions that will be issued by the Board of Directors and by the Assembly, to participate in the associative life and to pay the annual membership fee .
2. The Board of Directors decides on the admission or rejection within 60 (sixty) days from the presentation of the application. The Board of Directors must decide according to non-discriminatory criteria, consistent with the aims pursued and with the activities of general interest carried out.
3. Acceptance of the application is communicated to the new member within 30 (thirty) days from the date of the resolution and he must be entered in the register of members.
Art.8 - Rights and duties of members
1. Members have the right to:
a) participate in the Assembly with the right to vote, including the right to vote and to stand;
b) to be informed of all the activities and initiatives of the Association, and to participate in them;
c) examine the corporate books. In order to exercise this right, the member must submit an explicit request for acknowledgment to the Board of Directors, which provides within the maximum term of the following 15 (fifteen) days. The acknowledgment is exercised at the headquarters of the Association in the presence of a person indicated by the Board of Directors.
2. Members are entitled to exercise social rights from the moment of their registration in the register of members, provided that they are up-to-date with any payment of the membership fee, with the exception of the right to vote in the Assembly which is governed by 'art.16, c.2, of this Statute.
3. Members have the duty to:
a) adopt behaviors that conform to the spirit and aims of the Association, protecting its name, as well as in relations between members and between the latter and the corporate bodies;
b) comply with the Articles of Association, any internal regulations and the resolutions adopted by the corporate bodies;
c) pay any membership fee to the extent and within the terms established annually by the Board of Directors.
4. Membership fees and contributions are non-transferable and cannot be revalued.
Art.10 - Volunteers and voluntary work
1. Volunteers are persons who share the aims of the Association and who, by free choice, carry out their activities through it in a personal, spontaneous and free way, on a non-profit basis, not even indirectly and exclusively for solidarity purposes.
2. The Association must enter in a special register the volunteers, associated or not, who carry out their activity on a non-occasional basis.
3. The Association must also insure its volunteers against accidents and illnesses connected to the performance of the voluntary activity, as well as for civil liability towards third parties.
4. The volunteer's activity cannot be paid in any way not even by the beneficiary. The volunteer can be reimbursed for the expenses actually incurred and analytically documented for the activity performed, subject to authorization and within the limits established by the Board of Directors.
Art.12 - Bodies of the Association
The organs of the Association are:
a) the shareholders' meeting;
b) the administrative body (or Board of Directors);
c) the supervisory body, appointed if the conditions referred to in Article 30 of the Third Sector Code occur;
d) the auditing body, appointed if the conditions referred to in Article 31 of the Third Sector Code occur.
The election of the organs of the Association cannot in any way be bound or limited, and is informed by criteria of maximum freedom of participation in the active and passive electorate.
Art.25 - Responsibility of the corporate bodies
In addition to the Association itself, the persons who have acted in the name and on behalf of the Association are personally and jointly responsible for the obligations contracted by the Association. The Directors, the general managers, the members of the control and auditing body (if appointed), respond to the entity, the company's creditors, the founders, the associates and third parties, in accordance with the provisions on liability in joint-stock companies, as compatible.
Art.28 - Economic resources
1. The Association draws the economic resources for the functioning and carrying out of its activities from:
a) membership fees;
b) public and private contributions;
c) donations and bequests;
d) patrimonial annuities;
e) fundraising activities;
f) refunds deriving from agreements with public administrations;
g) income from activities of general interest and from various activities pursuant to Article 6 of the Third Sector Code;
h) any other income admitted pursuant to the Third Sector Code and other relevant regulations.