bylaws committee

[Guest lisa]

When an organization does not have any bylaws and want to establish them, does the president have exclusive rights to select a committee? Or does the e-board have input. Secondly, can the e-board be on the committee or shall it be members?

[David A Foulkes]

When an organization does not have any bylaws and want to establish them, does the president have exclusive rights to select a committee? Or does the e-board have input. Secondly, can the e-board be on the committee or shall it be members?

If you don't have any bylaws, how do you know you have a President, or E-Board, or what powers they have? Usually those positions (and powers) are defined IN the bylaws, and until those bylaws are drafted and approved by the organization, you don't have them. Ooorrr......... do you have some other type of "governing documents" that defines and describes your organization?

[hmtcastle]

When an organization does not have any bylaws and want to establish them, does the president have exclusive rights to select a committee? Or does the e-board have input. Secondly, can the e-board be on the committee or shall it be members?

And if you're asking if you can include these rules in your bylaws, the answer is that you can include whatever you want. But, as Mr. Foulkes notes (more or less), until you have bylaws, you don't much of an "organization", just a group of people that may be doing just fine without bylaws. So far.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

When an organization does not have any bylaws and want to establish them, does the president have exclusive rights to select a committee?

Does the e-board have input?

Can the e-board be on the committee or shall it be members?

If you have no rule regarding committees, then, according to Robert's Rules of Order:

(a.) a president appoints no committees, except that a chair (not necessary a president) may appoint a tellers committee when an election is pending.

(b.) the assembly is free to move and adopt a motion to refer an item of business to a committee.

An executive board (Is that what you are referring to by your phrase "e-board"?) may create committees, since a board is a deliberative assembly, and all assemblies may create, populate, and charge ("instruct") committees.

Anyone may sit on a committee.

Robert's Rules of Order contains no restrictions on the appointing party, like to only name people who have Qualification X; even nonmembers may be appointed to a committee, as far as Robert's Rules goes; there is no restriction regarding who gets to sit on a committee.

[Chris Harrison]

When an organization does not have any bylaws and want to establish them, does the president have exclusive rights to select a committee? Or does the e-board have input. Secondly, can the e-board be on the committee or shall it be members?

As was pointed out there are no officers and no Board until they are defined under the bylaws (with the exception of a Chair and Secretary who are considered "essential officers" per RONR p. 530). What you would be doing is establishing a permanent society. See RONR pp. 526-536 (mass meetings) and pp. 536-544 (organizing a permanent society).