adjourned meeting

[Guest rigo]

Bylaws require elections by a certain date,If an election is incomplete on that date due to a lack of candidates for all the offices, can it be adjourned to the next regular scheduled meeting date, call it an adjourned meeting and complete the elections per the rules?

[J. J.]

Once the election has become pending, it may be postponed subject to the rules relating to postponement. Likewise at the meeting is adjourned to a future time, it should be the same.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

Bylaws require elections by a certain date.

If an election is incomplete on that date due to a lack of candidates for all the offices, can it be adjourned to the next regular scheduled meeting date, call it an adjourned meeting and complete the elections per the rules?

Yes, but . . .

For organizations which meet monthly or quarterly, you don't have to jump through hoops and deliberately create a separate adjourned meeting (a continuation of the same session).

For such organizations, it is parliamentarily correct to postpone the elections to the next regular meeting.

Granted, you can go the route of doing the adjourned-meeting thing. - But your hands are not tied to do it.

If your annual meeting is further than quarterly-away from your next regular meeting, then the situation is different, and an adjourned meeting will likely be necessary.