On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:58 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 23:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 23:34 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:02 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>> >> > Its good to have a empty seat filled. But if the person filling it can't
>> >> > get the tasks at hand done. There is not much difference to the seat
>> >> > being empty. :)
>> >>
>> >> there is when the legal requirements are that we have X trustees
>> >
>> > There is no such law or any legal requirement. A company can be a single
>> > person which includes a Corporation in any form, C, S, etc ;)
>>
>> the law says the bylaws must be followed. our bylaws say we need X
>> people. ergo we are legally required to seat X people.
>
> What law says that? Bylaws are for internal operations. We made the
> bylaws, and there is no entity that will ever enforce breaching bylaws.
sorry, i didnt mean bylaws, but rather the charter, or whatever
document that describes the non-profit. it used to say we needed 7
trustees, but it has since been changed to 5.
-mike
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