hollasa Posted May 21, 2016 at 07:51 PM Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 at 07:51 PM I'm having some difficulty deciding which principle of bylaw interpretation is most applicable to a particular situation. In this situation, a parent association was in existence at School A. This school was converted into School B several years ago. Bylaws had been ignored for a while for the parent association of School B, but now a parent has the bylaws of School A and wishes to operate by them. These bylaws state that in order to be a member, your child must be registered at School A (which was converted to school B). The solution will be to bring this to the membership, and have the membership vote, of course. For the purposes of informed discussion, would you say that it is ambiguous which school is intended (as, after all, the building is the same)? Or would you say that "if the bylaws authorize certain things specifically, other things of the same class are thereby prohibited", referring to the specific authorization of registration in School A? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:03 PM Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:03 PM When you write "[School A] was converted into School B" what do you mean? Were two distinct schools merged (or consolidated) or did School A just close and all the kids who used to go to A are now assigned to attend B? Or was "School A" just given a new name for some reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollasa Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:06 PM Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:06 PM I'm doing some research for affected parents - it's currently unclear to me if it was simply a name change (and change of choice programming), or if School A closed and then School B opened in the same building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieu H. Huynh Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:08 PM Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:08 PM Is it possible to be registered at School A now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollasa Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:12 PM Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:12 PM It is not possible to be registered at School A now. Just determined that the government assigns codes to schools. School A had one code, and then school B has a different code. Adding to the fun, for one year in between the existence of School A and School B there was School "Name to be Determined", which shares the same code as school B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieu H. Huynh Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:31 PM Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 at 08:31 PM If it is not possible to have members now, then a new association with new bylaws would have to be adopted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollasa Posted May 22, 2016 at 01:56 PM Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 at 01:56 PM Some people are of the opinion that because technically it was a change of name of the school, where the phrase "School A" appears in the bylaws, it could just be changed to "School B". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted May 22, 2016 at 01:59 PM Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 at 01:59 PM 2 minutes ago, hollasa said: Some people are of the opinion that because technically it was a change of name of the school, where the phrase "School A" appears in the bylaws, it could just be changed to "School B". If it was just a change of name, I think they would be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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