Guest Non Profit Dilema 2 Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:09 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:09 PM If a president resigns and moves out of the area and cannot attend any board meetings in person, can they still be past president of a non profit group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Wynn Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:10 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:10 PM If a president resigns and moves out of the area and cannot attend any board meetings in person, can they still be past president of a non profit group.RONR has no qualifications or disqualifications for past president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:16 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:16 PM If a president resigns and moves out of the area and cannot attend any board meetings in person, can they still be past president of a non profit group.How could someone who used to be president not be a past president? Isn't that what a past president is? Someone who, in the past, was president? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:17 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 07:17 PM If a president resigns and moves out of the area and cannot attend any board meetings in person, can they still be past president of a non profit group.If the president resigns, working from a dictionary-style interpretation (and not RONR) of the phrase "past president", he not only can be but must be. What that gets him for all his trouble is another topic, which you broached earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted May 16, 2011 at 08:08 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 08:08 PM If a president resigns and moves out of the area and cannot attend any board meetings in person, can they still be past president of a non profit group.If you are indirectly asking, "Does a an early exit from a full term of office prevent a president from becoming immediate past president?", then there are two answers.1.) Per Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised [RONR 10th edition 2000], the answer is "Unknown." The term "past president" is NEVER used in the 700+ pages of RONR. So no page can be cited which will truly apply.2.) Per a dictionary, any president who leaves office must become a past president.Even if a president were to die in office, he, in the dictionary sense of the term, is a past president (as well as a passed president). Even if a president were impeached, or convicted of a felony and thrown into prison, that action would not prevent a president from becoming a past president.Anyone who was president for a month, a week, a day, or a minute, shall become a past president, no matter how he ends up leaving his office.In the dictionary sense of the term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted May 16, 2011 at 08:16 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 08:16 PM If a president resigns and moves out of the area and cannot attend any board meetings in person, can they still be past president of a non profit group.Anyone who was president in the past (but not the present) is a past president. That is a simple fact.But RONR does not provide that such a designation carries any rights, privileges, duties, or trappings of office. Unless your bylaws define the office and assign particular duties to past presidents, or to the immediate past president, then sure they can be past president, but it means nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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