Duration of motions

[Guest nancy]

Supposedly a motion was made in 2004. Paper work can not be found to substantiate this and the motion was not made into a bylaw. We're being told a motion last forever and can only be resinded by the sitting board whereas a bylaw can be resinded by the community.

So, how long is a motion good for? Years? Or for the duration of the board that adopted the motion?

Please help

[George Mervosh]

Until it's no longer applicable.

If you have an adopted motion to prohibit smoking in the gazebo, that motion remains in force as long as a gazebo and cigarettes both exist.

[jstackpo]

A motion is indeed good "forever", or until the body that adopted it decides to rescind it. (It doesn't matter if the personnel on that "body" has changed in the interim.)

Obviously, also, a motion ceases to have effect, if what the motion calls for is carried out.

[hmtcastle]

Paper work can not be found to substantiate this and the motion was not made into a bylaw.

The motion should be recorded in the minutes book. If your secretary lost the minutes book you're in big trouble. And so is your secretary. Whether the motion was "made into a bylaw" or not is immaterial.

[Guest nancy]

thanks everyone

[Shmuel Gerber]

Until it's no longer applicable.

If you have an adopted motion to prohibit smoking in the gazebo, that motion remains in force as long as a gazebo and cigarettes both exist.

I don't see how anything would change (as far as this rule is concerned) if a gazebo or cigarettes ceased to exist.

But if the rule required smoking in the gazebo, then there would be a problem. :-)