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Can anyone tell me if I have a legal way to remove members of a private club or society that continually post lies and dissension on social media and forums about our club and the members and BOD. The By-laws have an ethics rule stating that members cannot provide or pass on false information, also give thoughtful consideration to comments of others , encourage members and non members and conduct with proper decorum. These individuals, about 10-20 of them break all of these rule, continually. They are upsetting the vast majority of the rest of the members and I would like to get them out of the club. But I want to do it properly and legally. The board are all with me in this regard. The only article in the by-laws about removal is about removing a director or officer. Thanks for any help

No there is nothing in the by-laws to prescribe disciplinary procedures of members, only officers. It also says that that if there isn't a by-law for something then Roberts rules apply.

I have 2 members in our not for profit organization who have done much to disrupt proceedings for the last 6 months, and in one case, longer. They have spewed vitriolic articles on the internet, on their website, also sending out to the members. Other than a bit of election fraud, the worst thing they have done is send out emails to the members that are full of lies, falsehoods and spin. Our Ethics rules in the by-laws specifically say " shall refuse to knowingly provide or pass on false information." Also " shall conduct themselves with proper decorum" . As I see it, and I have mountains of proof, with emails and articles etc, they have broken both rules. We, the board, want to revoke their memberships. Are there any particular guidelines we should take in order to do this?

Our treasurer resigned after a contentious couple of years. He alleges gross misconduct on the part of the previous treasurer and he has spent the last 2 years trying to find missing information, where the previous treasurer signed to say on opening a CD that he had board approval and resolution in the minutes to move a large sum solely on his signature , the minutes say nothing about it, in fact it was not even discussed, letters from financial institutions not forwarded etc. The previous treasurer of course contests all of this. When the current treasurer resigned his resignation his letter, which was read out to the board, and a few members who turned up as well, it contained all the accusations, which are currently being investigated by the new treasurer. The person who is being accused was also in the meeting , which was an electronic meeting, so he heard the whole thing. He is demanding a copy of the resignation letter now. Do we have to give him a copy or tell him he has to wait for the minutes? He has also demanded that the resignation letter not be contained in full in the minutes, he wants just " resignation was read and accepted" in the minutes. This individual is trying to split our society and knows that if this gets out to the general membership his copybook will be blotted. But what is the correct thing to do Please.