Guest Jonathan Cowles Posted June 28, 2013 at 05:21 PM Report Share Posted June 28, 2013 at 05:21 PM Person A is the new President (last year). Person B is the President-Elect. Person C is the Immediate Past President. Person A resigns one month into Presidency and moves out of state. Person B assumes role of Acting President. Person C continues in role as Immediate Past President. Person B becomes President this year. Does Person C continue as Immediate Past President or does Person A become the Immediate Past President? We are a county-oriented, non-profit, tax-exempt Foundation. Our bylaws do not address this situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted June 28, 2013 at 05:47 PM Report Share Posted June 28, 2013 at 05:47 PM Person A resigns one month into Presidency and moves out of state. Person B assumes role of Acting President. Person C continues in role as Immediate Past President. Unless your bylaws define the IPP and President Elect in a strange way that wouldn't be the way things would turn out. After Person A resigns Person B becomes President which makes Person A the IPP and Person C isn't anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lages Posted June 28, 2013 at 05:52 PM Report Share Posted June 28, 2013 at 05:52 PM RONR does not define immediate past president, but the definition should come from the common English-language meaning of the words. Using that criteria, your immediate past president is the person (always singular) who occupied the office just prior to the current president. There is no choice in who that person is, so details such as how he or she left office, where he or she is residing now, and other similar factors are irrelevant. Of course you are free to define your immediate past president by some other means, but I doubt whether anyone here would recommend playing around with common definitions of words. And also, very few if any, of the responders here would recommend making your immediate past president a part of the current officers or board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted June 28, 2013 at 07:19 PM Report Share Posted June 28, 2013 at 07:19 PM Person A resigns one month into Presidency and moves out of state. Person B assumes role of Acting President. Person C continues in role as Immediate Past President. Person B becomes President this year. Does Person C continue as Immediate Past President or does Person A become the Immediate Past President? Unless your bylaws suggest otherwise, it seems that Person A is already the Immediate Past President, simply based on the definitions of the words. This problem is one reason most of us advise against having a position of Immediate Past President. There's also no such thing as an "Acting President" unless your bylaws so provide. Under RONR, you're either President or you're not. Also, technically the President-Elect only becomes President in case of a vacancy if your bylaws so provide - otherwise the VP gets the job. These are ultimately, of course, questions of bylaws interpretation. See RONR, 11th ed., pgs. 588-591 for some Principles of Interpretation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g40 Posted June 29, 2013 at 12:59 AM Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 at 12:59 AM To me, defining a position for the "Immediate Past President" is much like defining some defined role (beyond what is defined by law or what you choose to do) for one's ex-wife or ex-husband. Do you really want him/her for Thanksgiving dinner every year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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