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[Guest Janet D.]

Officers' length of term was inadvertently entered into the Constitution, instead of the By-Laws, the last time it was typed up. Is it necessary to go through the usual motion/discussion/voting procedure in order to move it, verbatim, into the By-Laws?

[Rob Elsman]

Officers' length of term was inadvertently entered into the Constitution, instead of the By-Laws, the last time it was typed up. Is it necessary to go through the usual motion/discussion/voting procedure in order to move it, verbatim, into the By-Laws?

If the versions typed up the last time were adopted as general revisions, yes; otherwise, no.

[David A Foulkes]

If the versions typed up the last time were adopted as general revisions, yes; otherwise, no.

As has been noted here before more than once, the bylaws will be found in the minutes. The printed versions typically made available to the membership are not THE bylaws, but are copies of them. So, would it be similar here that what Janet is facing is merely a typographical error?

For instance, if member dues are set at $25 per year by adoption of a bylaw amendment, and this is so noted in the minutes, and yet the printed copy of the bylaws erroneously notes them as $52, are not the dues in fact actually $25?

Thus, if there was no adoption of Constitutional amendment to place the length of term of office in that document, rather than in the bylaws, would it not simply be a "typo?"

[Weldon Merritt]

Thus, if there was no adoption of Constitutional amendment to place the length of term of office in that document, rather than in the bylaws, would it not simply be a "typo?"

I would say so.