On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
We would also need the Foundation to approve the change which could take months.
Hmm...? If I remember correctly, Chapters Committee has always been very informal about this IF a chapter even notifies us of a bylaws change. As a matter of fact, we hardly ever receive notifications of bylaws changes (certainly none for not-mission/object-related changes) and if we do, we generally look at it and if we're fine, we just communicate it that way.
Read: There is no affirmative resolution needed by ChapCom, which speeds up the process extremely.
Of course, if we received note (by the chapter or a 3rd party) of an absolutely objectionable bylaws change, eg. change of the charity's object to something unconnected to free knowledge, we might pass a resolution recommending derecognition by the board.
Michael