Occupancy Amending By-law - PDF DOCUMENT
WINDMILL LINE CO-OPERATIVE HOMES INC.
A BY-LAW TO AMEND THE OCCUPANCY BY-LAW
By-law No. 43
OCCUPANCY AMENDING BY-LAW
Passed by the Board of Directors on August 7, 2024
Confirmed by the members on August 18, 2024
Adapted from the model Occupancy Amending By-law © 2023 Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada and Co- operative Housing Federation of Toronto.
AMENDMENT TO OCCUPANCY BY-LAW
The purpose of this By-law is to amend the Occupancy By-law (By-law No. 39) to deal with electronic attendance at board meetings about evictions.
Article 18: Electronic Participation
18.1 Electronic participation
(a) Notice to Appear
When the board of directors considers ending a member’s membership and occupancy rights, the meeting can have
• in-person attendance only,
• electronic attendance only, or
• in-person or electronic attendance.
The board can decide in each case or can adopt a policy that would normally apply.
(b) Special meaning
In this By-law “electronic” or “electronically” means transmitting information or data by telephone or in other electronic or technological ways, including phone calls, voicemail, fax, e-mail, automated touch phone system, cell phone, computer or computer networks.
(c) Electronic meetings
When meetings are held electronically or have electronic participation, people who attend electronically must be able to reasonably participate in the meeting. They are considered to be present at the meeting for all purposes.
(d) How to connect
If electronic attendance is allowed or required, the Notice to Appear has to state the details on how the member and the member’s lawyer or other representative can connect and participate.
(e) Member’s request
On request, the board may permit a member or a member’s lawyer or other representative to participate electronically, even if electronic attendance was not stated in the Notice to Appear. In that case details on connecting and participating will be given within a reasonable time after the request.
18.2 Continuing a meeting on a Notice to Appear
The meeting to consider a Notice to Appear can be continued on another date without a new Notice to Appear only if the time and place to continue the meeting is announced at the original meeting together with instructions for attending and participating electronically if applicable. If the member is not present at the time of the announcement, the board may decide to give the member notice that no decision was reached on the original date and notice of the continued meeting.
Place of board meeting: Time and date of board meeting: Time for arrival:
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