Guest Lisa Posted October 7, 2018 at 08:20 PM Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 at 08:20 PM Our bylaws use the term provisional ( new member ) we want to keep our bylaws to say provisonals because even though we are own 501c3 the international organization we are connect with recognize provisonal as one out of the three classes of membership. However some members would like our policies to use the term new members instead of provisonal. Does that matter or should we have the same vocabulary in our by laws and in our policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Katz Posted October 7, 2018 at 08:29 PM Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 at 08:29 PM The question is a bylaw amendment. The organization should vote on it, and if there are enough votes to change it, it should change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted October 7, 2018 at 08:30 PM Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 at 08:30 PM (edited) More information would be helpful, but it seems to me it is best that your bylaws and your other rules use the same terminology when referring to different classes of membership. What is most important is that the bylaws clearly define the different classes of membership and clearly state who or what provisional members are and what rights they have Edited October 7, 2018 at 08:33 PM by Richard Brown Added last sentence and made typographical Corrections Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lisa Posted October 7, 2018 at 09:53 PM Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 at 09:53 PM To help with info : we are currently not changing any by laways, we are changing policies. So views at the table are to use a friendly term and use the term New Member in these policy. Per your statement above we should keep the same terms throughout both set of documents Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted October 8, 2018 at 03:07 AM Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 at 03:07 AM 5 hours ago, Guest Lisa said: To help with info : we are currently not changing any by laways, we are changing policies. So views at the table are to use a friendly term and use the term New Member in these policy. Per your statement above we should keep the same terms throughout both set of documents If you don't use the same terms, with the same definitions, you are definitely asking for trouble. You only have such classes of members as are mentioned in your bylaws (unless you have only one class, and you call it "members"). So if you try to set policies based on class distinctions that aren't defined, someone could make the argument that the rules apply to nobody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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