Filling a Board officer vacancy from resignation

[Guest Kelly]

When an organizations constitution and bylaws does not specify how to fill a board office or vacancy:

Does Roberts rules speak to this issue if so can someone site the specific location?

I did find a previous forum discussion about it but I’m unable to locate the actual wording location.

[Josh Martin]

44 minutes ago, Guest Kelly said:

When an organizations constitution and bylaws does not specify how to fill a board office or vacancy:

Does Roberts rules speak to this issue if so can someone site the specific location?

I did find a previous forum discussion about it but I’m unable to locate the actual wording location.

“The power to appoint or elect persons to any office or board carries with it the power to accept their resignations, and also the power to fill any vacancy occurring in it, unless the bylaws expressly provide otherwise. In the case of a society whose bylaws confer upon its executive board full power and authority over the society's affairs between meetings of the society's assembly (as in the example on p. 578, ll. 11–15) without reserving to the society itself the exclusive right to fill vacancies, the executive board is empowered to accept resignations and fill vacancies between meetings of the society's assembly.” (RONR, 11th ed., pg. 467)

So if your bylaws grant the board “full power and authority over the society’s affairs between meetings of the society’s assembly,” then the board may fill the vacancy. If not, the vacancy is filled by the same body which elected the position in the first place.