To elect a moderator when the Chairman has a conflict of interest

[Guest Auggie T]

Our organization is holding a special called meeting to discuss ethic conduct by certain members. However, one of the members in question is the chairman.

our by-laws state he interprets the rules and by-laws.

Can our group elect a moderator to conducted this special called meeting since the chairman is one of the parties involved and clearly a conflict of interest in his part?

[Gary c Tesser]

Yes. Your regular chairman should step aside. The vice-president (RONR's term; you might call him or her a vice-chairman?) would take the chair. (If the organization wants to elect a chairman pro-tem instead of the vice-president's smoothly taking the chair, I think you would have to move to suspend the rules to do it.)

[David A Foulkes]

Followers might want to take a look at this post also, since Auggie double-posted his question, and there's more info there.