10 steps for writing bylaws for an association Research. Form a committee. Create the structure. Outline your organization's key roles and responsibilities. Establish your meeting rules. Define your membership. Address finances. Outline the amendment process.
Your bylaws are not an employee handbook or policy manual designed to run the day-to-day operations of your nonprofit organization. For example, employee absences, vacation policies, and no-smoking policies have no place in an organization's bylaws.
1. : a rule adopted by an organization chiefly for the government of its members and the regulation of its affairs. 2. : a local ordinance.
Bylaws generally define things like the group's official name, purpose, requirements for membership, officers' titles and responsibilities, how offices are to be assigned, how meetings should be conducted, and how often meetings will be held.
In Zimbabwe, the primary role of making laws is vested in the Parliament. There are instances, however, when Parliament, for one reason or the other, delegates these law-making powers to the public authorities such as local authorities.
They contain the basic rules for the conduct of the corporation's business and affairs. The bylaws may contain any provision for managing the business and regulating the corporation's affairs that is not inconsistent with statutory law or the corporation's Articles of Incorporation.