Re: RROR on nonmembers

[Eduardo Gutentag <Eduardo.Gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

How would

>       it is the duty of the chairman to
>       enforce the rule of order, using whatever force is necessary
>       to eject the party.

translate to a phone conference? ;-)



Jon Bosak wrote:
> 
> Following up on an item that arose in this morning's PAC meeting
> regarding observers:
> 
> You will recall that I quoted the current (Ninth) edition of
> Robert's at p. 95, which is indexed in that edition under
> "Executive Session" and which is quite clear on the subject of
> observers.  The question was where the corresponding language is
> in the 1915 edition of RROR, which is the one that's available
> online (http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/rror/rror.zip).
> 
> The reference is in Article XIII, "Legal Rights of Assemblies and
> Trials of Their Members," Section 73, which reads as follows:
> 
>   73. Right of an Assembly to Eject any one from its Place of
>       Meeting.
> 
>       Every deliberative assembly has the right to decide who may
>       be present during its session; and when the assembly, either
>       by a rule or by a vote, decides that a certain person shall
>       not remain in the room, it is the duty of the chairman to
>       enforce the rule of order, using whatever force is necessary
>       to eject the party.
> 
>       The chairman can detail members to remove the person,
>       without calling upon the police. If, however, in enforcing
>       the order, any one uses harsher measures than is necessary
>       to remove the person, the courts have held that he, and he
>       alone, is liable for damages, just the same as a policeman
>       would be under similar circumstances.  However badly the man
>       may be abused while being removed from the room, neither the
>       chairman nor the society is liable for damages, as, in
>       ordering his removal, they did not exceed their legal
>       rights.
> 
> The important part relating to observers is, of course, just this:
> 
>       Every deliberative assembly has the right to decide who may
>       be present during its session;
> 
> which, in typical early RROR style, is intended to be read
> literally and from which all the implications spelled out in the
> later edition are expected to be understood by the reader.
> 
> Jon

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