The model rules are divided into the following sections:

1. The name of the Club shall be 'International Maritime Club' (hereinafter referred to in these rules as IMC).

2. The objective for which the club is formed is to promote and facilitate the interaction among marine and maritime institutions, marine corporate entities, maritime government agencies and statutory bodies. The purpose of the club is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information about maritime activities and to act as a source of all maritime information.

1. International Maritime Club is promoted and controlled by Aries Telecasting Pvt. Ltd, a company registered in India and owners of the brand 'Marine Biz TV'.

2. Membership to IMC is free and by invitation only.

1. The Officers of the club shall be the Chairperson/Representative of any permanent or associate members of IMC and shall consist of a President, a Vice President, a General Secretary, a Joint Secretary and an Honorary Treasurer. Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting in each year and shall hold office for one year, retiring at the termination of the Annual General Meeting in each year. All Officers of the Club shall be eligible for re-election but not continuously for more than 2 years on the same post. No member can hold more than one post at a time.

• To chair the Committee meetingss
• To take the final decision on various matters, in which the committee fails to take an unanimous decision, but to the satisfaction of the majority in the committee
• To represent IMC on various maritime affairs
• To set targets for the development of IMC.

• Keep a register of club members' names and addresses
• Conduct the correspondence of the club
• Keep custody of all club documents
• Keep full minutes of all meetings of the club
• Administer such policy or policies as may be needed fully to protect the interests of the club, its officers and its members
• Maintain contact with the club's Legal Advisor to ensure that the club's affairs are managed in accordance with current law
• Maintain any such certificates or registrations, and complete any such non-financial returns, as may be required by law.

• Cause such books of account to be kept as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of finances of the club
• Cause all returns as may be required by law in relation to such accounts to be rendered at the due time
• Prepare an Annual Balance Sheet as at 31.03 in each year and cause such balance sheet (and accounts as necessary) to be audited at least once annually and shall thereafter cause the same to be mailed to the members at least fourteen days before the date of the Annual General Meeting.

• Be appointed at the Annual General Meeting in each year and shall be two appropriately qualified members of IMC
• The Auditors shall audit the accounts (and Annual Balance Sheet) of the club when called upon to do so and shall give such certificate of assurance as to the accuracy of the said accounts as shall be required by law or by the Committee
• If either unwilling or unable to act, inform the Committee who shall appoint a substitute to hold office until the termination of the next Annual General Meeting.

• PERMANENT MEMBER - consist of 300 International or Regional active maritime organizations with more than 50 registered members and another 65 with less than 50 members. Individuals under permanent members shall be designated as 'platinum' members and will be issued with a platinum membership.
• ASSOCIATE MEMBER - The expression shall include non permanent members, corporate members and IMI members with minimum 10 members. There shall be no restriction to the number of Associate members. Individuals will be issued with an associate membership.
• CORPORATE MEMBER - being a maritime corporation / company, such a member shall be one who at the commencement of the subscription year joins the club and may become an associate member.
• INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER - Institutions dedicated to maritime education, public service or culture shall be categorized as a separate entity and named "International Maritime Institute" hereafter referred as IMI Forum. The number of members of IMI shall be limited to 365.
• STUDENT MEMBER - Organizations maritime students may become members of IMI and the number of student members is unlimited. They will be issued with a student membership.

• Membership is free and by invitation. Any organization / body / individual desirous of becoming a member may submit a written request to IMC through the chairperson of their corresponding organization. IMC shall invite the organization / body / individual to become a member based on the credentials submitted to it. The nature of membership offered shall be determined by the management committee. The invitation shall be in the nature of an application
• An application for membership shall be in the form from time to time prescribed by the management committee, and shall include the name, address, designation, mail ID and nature of the organization.
• Every member shall furnish the General Secretary with an up-to-date address which shall be recorded in the register of members and any notice sent to such address as shall be deemed to have been duly delivered.
• The Management Committee may refuse applications only for good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring IMC into disrepute. The General Secretary shall inform each organization/ individual in writing of the candidate's selection or non-selection. He shall furnish a selected member with a copy of the Constitution and Byelaws of the club.
• Every member, upon selection and thereafter, is deemed to have notice of, and impliedly undertakes to comply with, the Club Rules and the current Byelaws and Regulations of the club. Any refusal or neglect to do so, or any conduct which, in the opinion of the Management Committee, is either unworthy of a member or otherwise injurious to the interests of the club, shall render a member liable to expulsion by the Committee.

• The Management Committee herein sometimes referred to as The Committee shall consist of the Officers, and not less than one nor more than two from each of the category of membership, elected at the Annual General Meeting each year to hold office until the termination of the next following Annual General Meeting.

• The Committee shall make such Byelaws and Regulations as it shall from time to time think fit and shall cause the same to be published and mailed to the members of the club within a month before the date of implementation.

• The Committee may appoint such sub-committees as it may deem necessary and may delegate such of its powers as it may think fit upon such terms and conditions as shall be deemed expedient and/or required by the law. Such sub-committees shall consist of such members of the Committee or of IMC as the Committees may think fit. Officers of IMC shall be ex-officio members of such subcommittees.

• The Committee, or any person or sub-committee delegated by the Committee to act as agent for the club or its members, shall enter into contract only as far as expressly authorized, or authorized by implication, by the members.

• In pursuance of the authority vested in the Committee by members of the club, members of the Committee are entitled to be indemnified by the members of the club against any liabilities properly incurred by them or any one of them on behalf of the club wherever the contract is of a duly authorized nature or could be assumed to be of a duly authorized nature and entered into on behalf of the club.

• The Committee may nominate at an Annual General Meeting such Honorary Members as the Committee may think fit. The total of such honorary members shall not, however, at any time, exceed 10.

An Annual General Meeting of the club shall be held each year in the month on a date to be fixed by the Committee. The General Secretary shall at least three months before the date of such meeting post or deliver to each member notice hereof and of the business to be brought forward thereat.

No business, except the passing of the Accounts and the election of the Officers, Committee, and Honorary Auditors, and any business that the Committee may order to be inserted in the notice convening the meeting shall be discussed at such meeting unless notice thereof be given in writing by a member to the General Secretary at least 30 days before the date of the Annual General Meeting.

The Committee may at any time, upon giving thirty days notice in writing, call an extra ordinary General Meeting of the club for any special business, the nature of which shall be stated in the summons convening the meeting, and the discussion at such meeting shall be confined to the business stated in the notice sent to members.

The Committee shall similarly call a General Meeting upon a written request addressed to the General Secretary by at least 5% of members. The discussion at such meeting shall be confined to the business stated in the notice sent to members.

At every meeting of the club the President, or in his absence, the Vice President shall preside. In the absence of both of them the General Secretary shall preside. In the absence of all the three a Chairman elected by those present shall preside.

If, upon the winding up or dissolution of the club, there remains after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any property whatsoever, the same shall be paid to Marine BizTV.