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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Tax return and accounting discrepancies
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:02:33
Message-Id: AANLkTi=WMvs72Mm859zAO1AY_GZApH=3dcRjkHp1vTFy@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Tax return and accounting discrepancies by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:58 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 23:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
4 >> > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 23:34 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >> >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:02 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
6 >> >> > Its good to have a empty seat filled. But if the person filling it can't
7 >> >> > get the tasks at hand done. There is not much difference to the seat
8 >> >> > being empty. :)
9 >> >>
10 >> >> there is when the legal requirements are that we have X trustees
11 >> >
12 >> > There is no such law or any legal requirement. A company can be a single
13 >> > person which includes a Corporation in any form, C, S, etc ;)
14 >>
15 >> the law says the bylaws must be followed.  our bylaws say we need X
16 >> people.  ergo we are legally required to seat X people.
17 >
18 > What law says that? Bylaws are for internal operations. We made the
19 > bylaws, and there is no entity that will ever enforce breaching bylaws.
20
21 sorry, i didnt mean bylaws, but rather the charter, or whatever
22 document that describes the non-profit. it used to say we needed 7
23 trustees, but it has since been changed to 5.
24 -mike

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