Member Voting Rights at Executive Committee Meeting

[Guest Dennis Feuerstein]

Does a Member of an organization who attends an Executive Committee meeting of the organization have the right to make motions, speak in debate, and vote at meetings of the Executive Committee ?

Reference: a county level organization of my state's political party; the Member is not on the Executive Committee; said county organization's Bylaws is silent on this question but does adopt RONR (11th ed.). I could not find specific language covering this in the RONR (11th ed.)

Please provide RONR (11th ed.) references in your response.

[Thomas Ralph]

He does not have any of these, nor even the right to attend the meeting.

You will have to wait for someone who has RONR 11th edition to get citations, however, because mine's not arrived yet.

[Guest Guest]

what is the reference in the 10th edition (since you do not have the 11th edition)?

[Chris Harrison]

what is the reference in the 10th edition (since you do not have the 11th edition)?

For the 11th Edition RONR p. 3 ll. 1-5 (defining a member) and RONR p. 648 ll. 11-14 (regarding nonmembers of the body which is meeting having no rights to the proceedings).

For the 10th RONR p. 3 (defining a member) and RONR p. 628 (nonmembers not having rights). You will have to look to the pages for line numbers because the CD doesn't have line numbers and my DTB version of RONR is in mothballs now.

[Trina]

RONR (11th ed.) p. 96 ll. 28-34 may also be useful, as it gives a clear example where members of the larger organization (e.g. parishioners in a church) 'are not members of the meeting body' (the church council in the example). This, in conjunction with p. 648 (as cited by Chris H.) should make it clear that a member of the larger organization, who is not a member of the meeting body, is a nonmember in the parliamentary sense and has none of the rights of membership.