RONR as a governing document

[BabbsJohnson]

I had a thought yesterday, that if bylaws in an organization name RONR specifically, with no other option of what shall govern their corporate proceedings, should RONR be thought of as a second-tier (but still totally official) governing document, in which its “jurisdiction” is the “corporate proceedings”?

[Josh Martin]

25 minutes ago, Nosey said:

I had a thought yesterday, that if bylaws in an organization name RONR specifically, with no other option of what shall govern their corporate proceedings, should RONR be thought of as a second-tier (but still totally official) governing document, in which its “jurisdiction” is the “corporate proceedings”?

RONR has nothing to say about “jurisdiction” or “corporate proceedings,” but it does say the following about the status of RONR (as a parliamentary matter) in an organization which has adopted it as its parliamentary authority.

“When a society or an assembly has adopted a particular parliamentary manual—such as this book—as its authority, the rules contained in that manual are binding upon it in all cases where they are not inconsistent with the bylaws (or constitution) of the body, any of its special rules of order, or any provisions of local, state, or national law applying to the particular type of organization. What another manual may have to say in conflict with the adopted parliamentary authority then has no bearing on the case. In matters on which an organization's adopted parliamentary authority is silent, provisions found in other works on parliamentary law may be persuasive—that is, they may carry weight in the absence of overriding reasons for following a different course—but they are not binding on the body.” (RONR, 11th ed., pgs. 16-17)

[BabbsJohnson]

Oooo

That is very useful. Thank you!!