SECTION 1. The International Administrative Committee shall assist the International President in carrying out the duties and responsibilities of his/her office and shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon it by this Constitution.

SECTION 2. It shall be entrusted with the specific responsibility of determining efficient and effective practices and procedures for the proper policing, safeguarding and administration of all assets and funds of the International Union, of all Local Unions, and of any and all other bodies within or subject to the control of the International Union, or of any Local Union or of any group of Local Unions. It shall prescribe proper and efficient methods of bookkeeping, receipt, disbursements, accounting and auditing of all such funds and assets. It shall prescribe rules, regulations and procedures for the administration and policing of all welfare funds, building funds, emergency funds, mutual benefit funds, and all other funds of any sort whatsoever, in the negotiation, control, collection, or expenditures of or group of Local Unions, participates in any way, or in which any officer or member of the Union which the International Union, or any Local Union has any voice or power of decision by virtue of his/her office or his/ her membership.

SECTION 3. It shall cause the books of the International Secretary-Treasurer to be audited by a Certified Public Accountant semi-annually, and shall transmit a copy of the audit to all Local Unions on the completion thereof.

SECTION 4. Such real property as the International Administrative Committee may consider necessary or convenient for the conduct of the business of the Union may be acquired, held, leased, mortgaged, or disposed of by action of the Committee and title to such property may be taken and held in the names of the International President and International Secretary- Treasurer as Trustees for the International Union, or may be taken and held in such other manner as the Committee may determine, provided that the interests of the Union are adequately protected.

SECTION 5. Whenever the President or the Financial Secretary-Treasurer of a Local Union is not a full-time union official and is required by the nature of his/her employment to journey from his/her home base, the International Administrative Committee shall have the power to authorize the Executive Board of such Local to designate one of the members of the Executive Board as an additional authorized signature on checks issued against the accounts of the Local Union, and, provided such additional signatory is duly bonded, the signatures of any two, from among the President, Financial Secretary-Treasurer and such additional authorized signatory, on such checks shall meet the check signatory requirements of this Constitution.

SECTION 6. Any action or decision of the International Administrative Committee, and any practice or procedure established or prescribed by the International Administrative Committee, may be reversed or modified by the International Executive Committee or by the International Convention.