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Ins. by KS(A)Act,2018. 24 (viii) Membership shall be limited to those belonging to their respective district and where membership is given to individuals and clubs, such membership shall not entail any right of vote to such members in any meeting of the organization; (ix) In the State level, there shall be only one recognized organization for one sports discipline. The properly recognized organizations alone shall be eligible for the admissible financial aids, that is, grants and other benefits including grace marks. There shall be eligibility for grace marks and other benefits only if the certificates issued to the winners and participants of State level competitions conducted by the recognized State Sports Organizations are countersigned by an observer nominated by the State Sports Council. Only one organization from each district shall be eligible for affiliation of the State Organization. But, at least ten district level organizations shall be affiliated to the State Organization; (x) There shall be suitable officers at the District level and State level; (xi) There shall be only one recognized organization for each sports discipline without considering whether it is for youth or men or woman. (xii) The State Sports Council shall be given fifteen days prior information regarding the general body meeting, meeting for the election of office bearers, and of other meetings in which important decisions are to be taken and the State Sports Council shall sent its observers to such meetings; (xiii) Every Sports Organization shall complete their accounts immediately on the close of every financial year and an annual report containing significant matters in their functioning in the said year shall be published before the 31st day of May, including in the website of the organization; (xiv) Documents and accounts shall be prepared in the electronic format also and shall be made accessible to all its members and to the State Sports Council; (xv) It shall be duty bound to produce the documents and accounts, including soft copies, as and when demanded by the State Sports Council; (xvi) Once in a year the general body meeting, and once in four years or before that according to the term of office of the office bearers a special meeting to elect the executive committee members including President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be convened; (xvii) The sportsmen who have participated in the national or international level competitions shall be made members in the sports organizations with the right to vote and their number shall not be less than fifteen percent of the total membership and their selection shall be in consultation with State Sports Council; 25 (xviii) The District Organizations, State Organizations and organizations in the Local Self Government Institutions shall, before the 1st day of April every year, take steps to publish the calendar of activities and programmes for the next year in their website or in the website of the State Sports Council or in both; (xix) All sports organizations shall take steps to publish a schedule in an electronic format also with a comprehensive description of details regarding the services being rendered by them and the rights of their members; (xx) 81[The State Secretaries and District Secretaries of all Sports Organizations shall be Sportsman who had participated at least in the State Level And District Level] competitions in their respective sports disciplines and shall be either active in the field of sports or retired sportsman; (2) The District Sports Council shall consider the application and if it is satisfied that the conditions for granting recognition have been complied with, the application shall be submitted along with its recommendation for such registration to the State Sports Council within 81A[thirty] days from the date of receipt of application. (3) 82[***] (4) 83[***] (5) The State Sports Council shall consider an application received under 83A[sub-section (2)] and if it is satisfied that registration shall be given, such Sports Organization shall be registered as a recognized State Sports Organization or a recognized District Sports Organization, as the case may be, 84[otherwise the refusal of the application shall be informed to the said Sports Organization with in one month] (6) Any person aggrieved by any decision of the District Sports Council or the State Sports Council, as the case may be, with regard to the registration of a sports organization 85[may file appeal in the Appellate Tribunal along with the fees as may be prescribed and the decision of the Appellate Tribunal thereon shall be final.] 86[(7) The sports clubs functioning only in the area of any Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council or Village Panchayat may register as a sports club with the Corporation Sports Council or Municipal Sports Council or Village Sports Council concerned, as the case may be. (8) Any application for registration under sub-section (7) shall be submitted to the Sports