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1 hour ago, Guest Elginiter said:

A chair of one of our board sub committees presents motions as from committee when in fact his  committee never met.   Can it be accepted as from committee?

 

32 minutes ago, Guest Who's Coming to Dinner said:

A committee can only make recommendations. Motions are made by individual members. The chair's fibbing about where the recommendations came from is a disciplinary matter.

Um, not so fast.  According to page 503 of RONR, in the section on committee reports, it says the following:  "In the case of a committee, however, if it is impractical to bring its members together for a meeting, the report of the committee can contain what has been agreed to by every one of its members. (See also Electronic Meetings, pp. 97–99.) "

Without knowing more, I don't think we can say the committee chairman  is fibbing  or did anything wrong.  It might well be that every member of the committee did in fact agree to the report even though they never actually had a meeting.

Edited to add:  Also, when presenting the report of a committee, if the report contains a recommendation, the chair may move for the adoption of the recommendation on behalf of the committee.  From page 507:  "When a report contains recommendations—except in cases where the recommendations relate only to the adoption or rejection of question(s) that were referred while pending (13) and consequently become pending again automatically when reported (pp. 516–19)—the reporting board or committee member usually makes the necessary motion to implement the recommendations at the conclusion of his presentation, provided he is a member of the assembly"

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