MPS Prize Bylaws

Awarding the Prizes
1. All prize winners shall be informed of their selection, and must indicate acceptance within a reasonable time.
2. The prize will normally be awarded in a ceremony at a Society meeting. If a recipient does not attend the award ceremony, the Society will send the award via registered mail to any address designated by the awardee.
3. In the absence of an acceptance or appropriate mailing instructions from an awardee within a reasonable time, all material parts of the award shall be deemed to be forfeited and revert to the Society.
4. In the even of such a forfeiture the awardee will be listed as a prize winner in any subsequent published listing of prizes, unless the Society has been specifically requested not to do so by the awardee.
5. If an awardee seeks at some future time to claim a forfeited award, approval of the Council of the Society will be required. The above permits a prize to be awarded even if the recipient was never heard from. This is felt to be unavoidable if only merit is used as a criterion. Also it is possible that there is insufficient time between notification of the awardee and the award ceremony to permit contact.

Supporting the Prizes
In case the fund of any of the prizes sponsored or cosponsored by the Society is depleted, the Society will consider supporting the prizes out of its own resources.

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