Guest Lee Harris Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:33 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:33 PM Can bylaws be imbedded within the body of the Constitution or must they be on a separate page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:38 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:38 PM Can bylaws be imbedded within the body of the Constitution or must they be on a separate page?See RONR pp. 13-14. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:50 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:50 PM Can bylaws be imbedded within the body of the Constitution or must they be on a separate page?If you can get the bylaws down to one page, congratulations! Of course, I'm not sure I want to know long the constitution is!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:51 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 at 05:51 PM Can bylaws be imbedded within the body of the Constitution or must they be on a separate page?The former:In the ordinary case, it is now the recommended practice that all of a society's rules of this kind be combined into a single instrument, usually called the "bylaws," although in some societies called the "constitution" --or the "constitution and bylaws," even when it is only one document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted February 23, 2011 at 07:46 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 at 07:46 PM Can bylaws be embedded within the body of the Constitution, or must they be on a separate page?• If they are separate documents, then they must be kept separate.That is, however you choose to publish both documents, even if you staple them both together as a package, the text of the bylaws must be separated from the text of the constitution if they have a separate amendment process.• If the numbering systems are duplicated, then you must keep them separate. -- That is, you ought not have a single document with two "Article One"s, two "Article Two"s, two "Article Three"s, etc.• If you were to combine them, without a page break of some kind then, assuming they were truly separate and thus had separate amendment processes, there would be confusion. -- Which text is to be amended by which amendment process?• If the numbering systems are not not duplicated, or even complimentary, then you might have just one document, and not two separate documents.• If the amendment process for both documents are identical, then, the two documents may not be as independent as you think. You might have one document, titled "Constitution and Bylaws," which many organization indeed do have.In such a case, there is no combining of documents, as there is only one document, with a "strange" (contradictory) title suggesting two separate documents.And there would be nothing to separate out.Q. Are the two documents independent?Q. Are you asking a question about "how to print" or "how to publish" the two independent documents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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