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This question, in two parts, is about the procedure if both your President and Vice President are absent from a regularly scheduled meeting, and our bylaws have no provisions for this circumstance. If you have an answer, can you please provide the locations in Robert's Rules as to where this is written?

Second, does the President have the authority, according to Robert's Rules, to appoint an individual to run the meeting? Again this is not written in our current bylaws.

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This question, in two parts, is about the procedure if both your President and Vice President are absent from a regularly scheduled meeting, and our bylaws have no provisions for this circumstance. If you have an answer, can you please provide the locations in Robert's Rules as to where this is written?

If neither the president nor vice-president is present, the secretary should call the meeting to order and preside over the election of a chair pro tem. If the secretary, too, is absent, any member should do so. See RONR(10th ed.), p. 437, l. 13-25.

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Second, does the President have the authority, according to Robert's Rules, to appoint an individual to run the meeting? Again this is not written in our current bylaws.

With the approval of the assembly, the chair can, under certain circumstances, appoint a chair pro tem. This must be done in a meeting, though. See RONR(10th ed.), p. 437, l. 1-12.

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