When the National Board of Directors Committee System is established, a control system of numbering background material and actions will be implemented as follows:
Background reference material of specific interest to a specific committee, motions from members, chapters, the region COP, the National COP of special interest to a committee and proposals/motions from Directors as a result of committee action will be identified with a series of numbers. They will start with a prefix of the year the National President was elected, an intermediate number which identifies the committee and a suffix beginning with the number 01 and continuing until no longer required, i.e., 98-1-1, 98-2-1, 98-3-1, 98-4-1, etc. To facilitate committee identification, each committee will be numbered as follows: