Presidential role

[Guest Chris]

Can the President of an organization make an executive order without a vote

[Rob Elsman]

Nothing in RONR (12th ed.) authorizes the president to do anything beyond performing his duties as presiding officer in the context of a meeting. Whether he has other duties outside the context of a meeting is not a matter for parliamentary law.

[Richard Brown]

Agreeing with Mr. Elsman, RONR is clear that an officer such as the president may have other administrative duties in addition to that of presiding over meetings of the society.  It is completely within the sound discretion of the society as to what those administrative duties (such as signing checks) might be and how the president should exercise them.  Those duties generally have nothing to do with parliamentary and are outside the purview of RONR.    RONR (12th ed.) 47:20

[Gary Novosielski]

On 6/10/2024 at 4:54 PM, Guest Chris said:

Can the President of an organization make an executive order without a vote

There is nothing known as, or even resembling, an "executive order" in the rules of RONR.  So unless your bylaws give the president this power, it does not appear to be a thing.