Amy Perruso Posted March 18, 2018 at 01:17 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 at 01:17 AM If our governance manual and bylaws state the VP shall serve in the place of the President if the President is 'not available,' but are silent on the issue of succession should a President-Elect already exist, do we defer to the guidelines in RRO for this situation, i.e. that the President-Elect shall serve in the place of the President? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieu H. Huynh Posted March 18, 2018 at 01:47 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 at 01:47 AM If the bylaws are silent, the vice president would preside or fill the vacancy of the president (see RONR 11th ed., p. 457, ll. 26-28). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Who's Coming to Dinner Posted March 18, 2018 at 03:18 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 at 03:18 AM The Vice President presides in the absence of the President and becomes President for the remainder of the term should the office be vacated. If you have a President-Elect, that person becomes president when the term to which (s)he was elected begins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted March 18, 2018 at 04:06 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 at 04:06 AM 43 minutes ago, Guest Who's Coming to Dinner said: The Vice President presides in the absence of the President and becomes President for the remainder of the term should the office be vacated. If you have a President-Elect, that person becomes president when the term to which (s)he was elected begins. That is probably correct, but some organizations have a "President-Elect" who is elected a year in advance. Depending on the wording of the bylaws, that person, rather than the vice president, might take over and serve the remainder of the president's term if for some reason the president does not complete his term. I agree that the vice president will serve whenever the president is temporarily absent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted March 18, 2018 at 04:14 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 at 04:14 AM 7 minutes ago, Richard Brown said: That is probably correct, but some organizations have a "President-Elect" who is elected a year in advance. Depending on the wording of the bylaws, that person, rather than the vice president, might take over and serve the remainder of the president's term if for some reason the president does not complete his term. I agree that the vice president will serve whenever the president is temporarily absent. True but we are told that the bylaws are silent on succession, so the rules in RONR presumably apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted March 18, 2018 at 04:30 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 at 04:30 AM 3 hours ago, Amy Perruso said: If our governance manual and bylaws state the VP shall serve in the place of the President if the President is 'not available,' but are silent on the issue of succession should a President-Elect already exist, do we defer to the guidelines in RRO for this situation, i.e. that the President-Elect shall serve in the place of the President? No, you follow your bylaws. RONR notes that it is "usual" where the office of president-elect exists for the bylaws to provide that the president-elect presides in the absence of the president, and succeeds to the office of president in the event of a vacancy. But if the bylaws do not so provide, then that is not the rule. In your case, the bylaws explicitly state that the VP presides in the absence of the president, so they are not "usual" in that respect. Furthermore, they are silent on succession, so that the rule in RONR applies--that the 1st (or only) VP succeeds to the office for the remainder of the term. The president-elect would only become president at the expiration of the existing term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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