Removal of officer

[Timberwolf]

The board of Directors may remove any officer whenever in their judgment the business interest of the Association will be served thereby. How should this be done? By-laws are not very clear. Have read Roberts rules pg 642&643. Thanks

[Josh Martin]

n affirmation vote of two-thirds of the Directors present shall be necessary to cause loss of privileges for prejudicial conduct. We also have a section on removal which reads, The board of Directors may remove any officer whenever in their judgment the business interest of the Association will be served thereby. With that said I think we should have not removed until a formal hearing and trial as in Roberts Rules should have been conducted. Thanks

Interpretation of your Bylaws is beyond the scope of this forum. It is up to your organization to interpret its own Bylaws. See RONR, 10th ed., pgs. 570-573 for some Principles of Interpretation.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

The board of Directors may remove any officer whenever in their judgment the business interest of the Association will be served thereby.

This is a truism, except for the noun (i.e., the subject of the sentence), which authorizes a subset of people, viz., the board, instead of the default party, viz., the general membership.

That is, all organizations "... may remove any officer whenever in their judgment the ... interest of the [society] will be served thereby."

How should this be done?

Since you have no METHOD (only a rule pointing to the responsible party who does the actual removal), then read Chapter XX Section 61, and use that process, per that chapter's criteria (viz., (a.) rescind the election; vs. (b.) hold a trial).