Executive Session

An executive session in general parliamentary usage has come to mean a portion of a meeting at which the proceedings are secret.

Members of the Organization, who are not members of the Board or committee, may be invited to attend, but they are not entitled to attend.

A member can be punished under disciplinary procedures if he violates the secrecy of an executive session.

Anyone else permitted to be present in honor-bound not to divulge anything that occurred.

Any minutes, or record of proceedings, of an executive session must be read and acted upon only in executive session, unless that which would be reported in the minutes-that is, the action taken, as distinct from that which was said in debate.

Secrecy can be lifted by the Executive Board.