Amendment to by-laws passed at general mtg without notice before the meeting

[Guest Ms H]

Our association of senior citizens passed an amendent changing the requirements of officers at a general meeting. This was done without any prior notification to the general memership. I think this was an 'illegal' motion and should not be effective immediately. This was done just before the nomination committee brought fourth nominations for officers. They did call for nominations from the floor, of which there were none due to the passing of the amendement just prior to this. Was this correct proeedure? Thank you very much.

[jstackpo]

Maybe, maybe not..

Take a look at your current bylaws and look for the article that specifies how amendments are to be done. Were those rules followed?

[Guest Ms H]

Those rules were not followed, how do we proceed?

[jstackpo]

Those rules were not followed, how do we proceed?

Next meeting raise a point of order that the rules were not followed and the amendments are all null and void. See RONR, p. 244