I. Eligibility

1. To be eligible to serve on the USOC AAC, an athlete must have represented the United States in Olympic, Pan American, or Operation Gold competition within the preceding ten years as measured from the first AAC meeting of the Quadrennium.
2. An athlete may serve as the USOC AAC representative from an NGB for a maximum of two terms.  An athlete may serve for an additional term as an at-large member of the USOC AAC. 
3. Athletes cannot be paid employees of the USOC or NGB and simultaneously serve on the USOC AAC. 
4. The representative and alternate must be of the opposite sexes.
5. Only athletes eligible to run for the AAC position are eligible to vote for the AAC position.
6. Elections must be concluded by the end of the Quadrennium. (Chapter XXIV, Section 1 currently requires elections to be at the conclusion of the Summer Olympic Games.) 
7. All approved procedures must be codified in the NGB’s AAC documents and may be codified in the NGB organic documents.
8. Individual athletes are responsible for updating their contact information with the NGB. The NGB will make a good faith effort to contact all eligible athletes, however, nominations and elections will not be delayed due to the inability to locate and contact athletes.

II. Nominations

1. Following the conclusion of the Olympic Sailing events, the NGB will send out a "Notice of Election" to notify all eligible athletes, as defined in I.1. above, regarding the dates for nominations and voting.

2. Athletes may nominate themselves or others. All nominations must be accepted by the nominee and seconded prior to the actual voting. Nominees who do not accept their nomination or fail to gain a second shall not be included on the final ballot.

III. Voting

1. Voting may take place by US mail and/or web page and/or electronic mail. Voting methods will be clearly stated in the Notice of Election.

2. The nomination and voting periods will be approximately two weeks in duration each. The exact dates must be stated in the initial notice of election.

3. Elections should be completed 21 days prior to the first AAC meeting of the quadrennium, but may be completed sooner.

IV. Grievances

1.         Athletes may resolve disputes regarding the election procedures according to Article 14 of the US SAILING Bylaws.