John Wilford

Completely agree on this point. Unfortunately the situation in the case behind the question is a rule stating "shall be completed within twenty (20) days of taking office" so unfortunately we're unable to use this best practice 😒 and for reasonable motivation on the part of the crafters of the rule as the date of taking office could vary.

If you look up Computation of Days in RONR 12, you will find three sections that basically say the same thing. I'll quote one below. These all deal with notice for meetings. Here is what I can't find: if a motion or rules of a society require action to be taken within x number of days, how are those calculated? At first, it would appear obvious, but thinking about it, I'm not sure it is. Taking guidance from above. All days, excluding the day of the meeting, should include the day of the notice. What are the analogs here? Is the notice the day of the motion or trigger to the rule, and the meeting is the action? In that case, it would seem if the rule said 30 days, you would include the day of the triggering action, go out 30 days, and if you did it on the 31st day, then you would be safe because you don't count that one. Is it the other way, such that the day of the triggering event is the meeting, so you don't count that one, but you have to do it on the 30th day? Or do you get one less day for taking action than you do for noticing meetings? Any help or references would be much appreciated.

What I was indicating is that by its nature, it didn't allow it. There is nothing in the bylaws explicitly denying it. This is helpful, thank you!

Our executive committee has a bylaw that allows us to conduct business via electronic vote it reads After a motion was recently presented and received the requisite 10% but before it had been put up for a vote another member asked for 10% support for an amendment. The chair is waiting for the 10% for that amendment motion before starting the vote on the original motion to see if the amendment should be put to the body. I don't believe this is proper as an amendment is a subsidiary motion and RONR12 6:6 states and RONR12 4:3 states So I believe our Electronic Voting bylaws do not allow for subsidiary motions because once the question is on the floor it is immediately up for a vote. Am I misreading or misinterpreting things here, is the chair, or are we both confused?