The purpose of this nonprofit corporation is to promote educational, scientific and charitable activities in the fields of surveying, mapping and land information sciences.
Specific purposes are:
(1) To promote education, study, and research in the field of surveying, mapping and land information sciences and dissemination of knowledge thereof;
(2) To provide scholarships, awards or other support to qualified students of surveying, mapping, and land information sciences;
(3) To conduct and support educational programs, lectures, forums, and seminars in surveying, mapping and land information sciences and related subjects;
(4) To cause to be published and to distribute literary works on surveying, mapping, and land information science subjects;
(5) To acquire by bequest, devise, gift, grant, purchase, lease or otherwise and to hold, manage and use for purposes herein set forth any property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, or any undivided interest; to convey, sell or otherwise dispose of such property and to invest, re-invest and to manage the same, including the right to vote any stocks so held, in such a manner as in the judgment of the Trustees of this organization will best promote its purposes;
(6) To make distributions to other organizations that qualify for federal tax exemption under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for educational purposes related to surveying, mapping and land information sciences.
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