Statute — Youth Lviv

Key provisions

This summary is provided for convenience only and has no legal force. In case of any discrepancy, the Ukrainian text prevails.

Purpose: to exercise and protect rights and freedoms and to meet public interests, in particular economic, social, cultural, environmental and other interests (point 4).
Directions: civic initiative and participation (5.1); self-realization and potential of young people (5.3); support for Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic course (5.4); education, professional development and retraining (5.5); other directions serving the purpose (5.34).
The organization is a legal entity from the day of its state registration and may have seals, stamps, letterheads, bank accounts and its own symbols (emblem, flag), which are subject to registration under the law (point 6).
Its rights include disseminating information about its work, petitioning authorities, obtaining public information, taking part in drafting regulations and regulatory policy, representing its members, holding peaceful assemblies and founding media (point 7).

Membership is voluntary and individual; members may be citizens of Ukraine, foreign nationals and stateless persons lawfully in Ukraine who have reached the age required by law (point 8).
Membership is granted on a written application by decision of the executive body within 30 calendar days (points 9–10).
A member may leave at any time; the executive body may terminate membership for a breach of the statute or for more than a year of non-participation (points 11–14).
Members’ rights and duties are listed in points 15–17.

The supreme governing body is the General Meeting of Members; the executive body is a sole Director (points 18, 28).
The General Meeting may decide any matter and has exclusive powers over the name, the statute, major transactions, termination, electing the Director and approving the Director’s report (point 19).
Regular meetings are held annually; extraordinary ones at the request of at least one tenth of the members; notice of at least 15 calendar days; quorum — a simple majority of members (points 20–25).
Decisions require a simple majority of those present, and three quarters for the matters in points 19.1–19.5 (point 27).
The Director is elected for five years, acts without a power of attorney and reports at the regular meeting (points 28–35).

Complaints about the Director are considered by the General Meeting within two months; decisions may also be challenged in court.

The organization is a non-entrepreneurial society. Its property comes from grants, voluntary donations, members’ fees, passive income, budget support, charitable, humanitarian and technical aid and other lawful sources (points 38–40).
Income and assets may not be distributed among members, officers or related persons and are used only for the organization’s upkeep, purpose and directions (points 41–43).
The organization keeps accounts, files reports, publishes reports on the use of budget funds if it receives them, keeps beneficial ownership information up to date and keeps records for at least five years (point 45).

The organization may set up separate subdivisions without legal personality (points 46–50).
The General Meeting may switch to another edition of the model statute at any time; it applies from state registration of the change (points 51–52).
On termination, the organization’s assets are transferred to one or more non-profit organizations or to the budget (point 56).