Quorum verbiage?

LukeA: This quote from your Bylaws is very confusing--it actually can imply that if a quorum is not present of members, then a majority of members may adjourn the meeting;...and...'may adjourn the meeting from time to time' makes no sense at all.

I would suggest you look carefully through the bylaws for reference for holding a meeting to conduct business and how does your community go about passing a vote, election of directors, etc. To use this 'quorum reference' without any other reference to conducting business is very subjective to the reader. Also, do your bylaws make any reference to using Roberts Rules of Order?

PaulM, Here is the rest of the section under a Membership Meeting Quorum in our By-Laws. No problem here, its just that last sentence.

"The members holding ten percent (10%) of the votes which may be cast at any meeting shall constitue a quorum at such meeting." Then this if followed by that which I first quoted above, that's it.

Under the BOD Meetings the section on a Quorum reads, in total:

"A majority of the Directors (four) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board of Directors. If less than a majority of the Directors is present those present may, by unanimous action, adjourn from time to time without further notice."

That is our delema. I was hoping someone here might know what in fact they are trying to say? That is why we have the different opinions.

No PaulM, we do not have any reference to Roberts Rules of Order in our By-Laws. It has for some 25 years basicly been a good-o-boys system and has worked for the most part but time and change is catching up. Those original By-Laws that wording came from, was a product of the Attorney that drafted them for the Association, not the Association Members. I myself am basicly a newcomer here but have been in three different Associations in the past and have never seen wording even close to this.