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Is it necessary to have been present at the previous meeting (from which the minutes were generated) in order to approve the minutes?

There was a complete change of the board of directors of a corporation. No quorom from the previous board was available. Subsequently the new board of directors approved the minutes of a meeting of previous board of directors. Is this legal or should the previous board of directors had input into the approval of the minutes because they were acutally at the meeting?

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Is it necessary to have been present at the previous meeting (from which the minutes were generated) in order to approve the minutes?

No.

Just because you had no part of the generation of those minutes, that fact is not a prohibition regarding one's right to vote on the pending question.

One's right to vote is not dependent upon one's knowledge or wisdom.

... the new board of directors approved the minutes of a meeting of previous board of directors.

Is this legal

or

should the previous board of directors had input into the approval of the minutes because they were acutally at the meeting?

Yes, it is "legal" (i.e., proper within the parliamentary rules of Robert's Rules of Order).

No, the previous board (directors) are non-members of the (current) board, and have no more right to approve minutes than I do.

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Is it necessary to have been present at the previous meeting (from which the minutes were generated) in order to approve the minutes?

There was a complete change of the board of directors of a corporation. No quorom from the previous board was available. Subsequently the new board of directors approved the minutes of a meeting of previous board of directors. Is this legal or should the previous board of directors had input into the approval of the minutes because they were acutally at the meeting?

There are ways it could have been handled better, but it's water under the bridge now. If the board of directors approved the minutes of the previous meeting then they're approved. At this point, the "previous board" is just a random bunch of people, and they can't approve anything. The actual board of directors (new as they may be) is the board of directors, and they can approve minutes.

In general it is NOT necessary for a member to have been present at a meeting in order to approve (or correct) the minutes of that meeting.

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