Rules of Executive Board

[Guest Daniel H. Honemann]

"authority to transact business between membership meetings" and "authority to create such standing committees as necessary" is not authority to adopt rules which conflict in any way with the bylaws, the parliamentary authority, and an"

[Guest Jo]

I understand that, but could the board adopt rules that set forth what each standing committee can or cannot do (provided that those rules do not conflict with any of the other rules above them) since the board is the supervising authority over the commit"

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

You have to interpret your own bylaws but it would be hard to argue that the authority to create a standing committee does not include the authority to define the responsibilities of that committee.

The short answer here is that your questions ar"

[Guest Jo]

The bottom line to my question is can a board adopt rules for itself if the bylaws do not specifically give it that authority based on RONR, p.469 l 15-16 which says "except as the bylaws may authorize the board to adopt its own rules." See als"

[Guest John M.]

>>can a board adopt rules for itself if the bylaws do not specifically give it that authority<<

No.

>>My reading of this is unless the bylaws give the board the authority to establish their own rules, they cannot.<&l"