Best Practices of Editorial Amendments

[Sean Hunt]

When the secretary or a committee makes amendments of an editorial nature (such as renumbering sections) either because they are strictly necessary or under delegated authority, as described on pp. 598-599, how should such amendments be recorded? Based on a large number of discussions on this forum, the official version of the bylaws is to be found in historical record that is the minutes, but would not such minor amendments be outside the record and thus lead to confusion if, later, an amendment is made that refers to a now-removed or moved section of the bylaws?

 

Suppose, for instance, that a motion "To insert after Article III a new Article IV reading as follows..." is adopted, and then some time after that, a motion "To amend Article V by inserting... after the words..." is adopted. The author of the second motion, however, did not receive an updated copy of the bylaws from the first motion, and did not realize that, in fact, he wished to amend Article VI. How should this be resolved?

[Dan Honemann]

I don't understand this. Did you really mean to say that the subsequent motion "To amend Article V by inserting... after the words..." is adopted ? And when you say this occurred "some time after" the first amendment was adopted, what exactly do you mean by this?