Board member resignation

[Guest Kathy]

If a Board member/officer resigns mid-term, can the Board appoint a replacement or must the general membership elect a new person. Our bylaws do not cover this

[Gary Novosielski]

See if the following paragraph answers your question.  Do your bylaws have similar  language about the board having charge of the society's affairs between meetings?

47:57
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 in 56:43) 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. For particular vacancies, see 47:22 (president-elect), and 47:28–30 and 56:32 (president and vicepresidents). See also 13:23 (vacancies in a committee). 
 

Edited December 17, 2023 at 06:43 PM by Gary Novosielski

[Guest Kathy]

Thank you

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