Can Appointed Board Members Vote

[colonel]

A member that is in good standing keeping their rights and priviledges to vote then they put their name in for nomination due to a vacancy on the Board of Directors and are appointed by the remaining Board Members until the next Annual Election, are they allowed to vote on motions at General/Special Meetings as long as it is not a conflict of interest involving themselves?

[hmtcastle]

are they allowed to vote on motions at General/Special Meetings as long as it is not a conflict of interest involving themselves?

All members can vote. Even if there's a conflict of interest.

[colonel]

What reference in RR's can I read on this topic? There are some members in our Association who think this is in violation of our Bylaws. They also mentioned Covenants but there is nothing that covers this in our CRR's.

[hmtcastle]

There are some members in our Association who think this is in violation of our Bylaws.

If it's in violation of your bylaws then it doesn't matter what RONR says.

But ask those "some members" to prove it.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

A member ... [who] put [his] name in for nomination due to a vacancy on the Board of Directors, and [is] appointed by the remaining Board Members until the next Annual Election,

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Q. [is he] allowed to vote on motions at General/Special Meetings ...?

Are you implying that some of your colleagues believe that once an ordinary (general) member is appointed to the board, that that same person loses the right to vote when the general membership holds its meeting?

No. There is nothing in RONR 10th edition which implies such a thing.

• No one loses the right to vote just because, e.g.,

(a.) he wears two hats (or more);

(b.) he is appointed to fill a vacancy;

(c.) he sits on a board.

• He does not forfeit his rights of membership in one body just because he is "promoted" (e.g., elected, appointed, succeeded) to a higher position, or he joins a another body (e.g., a board, a committee, a council, a task force, etc.).

If you have customized rules which say otherwise, then obey those rules.

[Trina]

A member that is in good standing keeping their rights and priviledges to vote then they put their name in for nomination due to a vacancy on the Board of Directors and are appointed by the remaining Board Members until the next Annual Election, are they allowed to vote on motions at General/Special Meetings as long as it is not a conflict of interest involving themselves?

Judging by the title of your post ('can appointed board members vote'), I wonder if some in the organization are suggesting that an appointed board member has a different status than an elected board member? Namely, that the elected folks can vote at board meetings, and the appointed ones can't?? That position is not supported by anything in RONR; all members, no matter how they got there, have the right to vote.

'A member of an assembly, in the parliamentary sense... is a person having the right to full participation in its proceedings -- that is,... the right to make motions, to speak in debate on them, and to vote.' (RONR p. 3)

If you have different classes of membership (some voting, some non-voting) that would have to be defined in your own rules -- it does not come from RONR.