Dan Honemann

I haven't thought much about this, but it seems to me that the voting requirement for the adoption of any motion is unchanged except for the fact that adoption by vote of a majority of the entire membership is no longer an option. I don't think it can safely be said that the rule is the same as it is for a mass meeting where the "entire membership " consists of those persons in attendance.

It is possible to do it in one motion, but that motion will need to be one to amend the bylaws and will have to comply with all requirements for doing so.

If there is no applicable bylaw requirement that the motion that is made is one which must first be submitted to one of these boards, when a main motion has been brought before the church at large a motion can be made to refer it to one of these boards. See RONR, 12th ed., 13:1-26, for the rules relating to motions to Refer. If there is such a bylaw requirement, a point of order should be raised that the motion's introduction before the church at large is not in order.

No. This is correct. Good job!

A person who is a member of the group that is meeting certainly has a right to make motions, yes.

Do you have any membership eligibility requirements in your bylaws that he no longer meets?

Sure, but I don't know how to word it for you because I don't know what numbers you want to change. It really can't be too difficult.

If there is nothing wrong with what appears in the body of each of the Articles in your bylaws, and the perceived problem is simply that these Articles do not appear in the same order as those in the sample set of bylaws found in RONR, it doesn't seem to me to be worth the effort it will take to amend them. Type up a Table of Contents for yourself (and anyone else who wants one).

Leave them alone.

I simply do not understand this. I assume these are consecutive years, with no meeting occurring between them. What, exactly, do the minutes of the first of these two meetings reflect happened with respect to amendment of the bylaws?

Okay, so instead of voting on revising the bylaws with a single vote, I gather that individual votes were taken on separate amendments. Do you have the minutes of the meeting when this was done?

How do you know what time this bylaw revision was "done" if you can't find any minutes indicating it was done?

But you haven't answered my question. What sort of vote was taken? Was it a ballot vote? Voice vote? What?

I'm sure you don't really mean to say exactly what you have said here. Under no circumstances would this be the case.

What sort of vote was taken?