What is the meaning of "ex-officio"? And, "standing committee"?
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Ex-officio means by virtue of one's office.  What this normally means is that a person can serve on a committee because of the position they hold.  For instance, in many organizations, the President is a non-voting ex-officio member of all committees meaning they are considered a member of the committee, but they may not vote.  Ex-offico is often understood to mean non-voting but does not in the phrasing alone mean that.\n\nA standing committee is a committee that exists on a permanent basis.  Even after there is a change of officers it will continue to function.  It normally has a fairly wide mandate which can encompass many different areas.\n\nIt differes from an "ad-hoc" committee which exists for a set period of time in order to work on a specific problem.
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A committee is a (relatively) small group that can serve one of several functions:\n\n    * Governance: in organizations too large for all the members to participate in decisions affecting the organization as a whole, a committee (such as a Board of Directors) is given the power to make decisions. A committee of this type is a form of a deliberative assembly.\n\n    * Coordination: individuals from different parts of an organization (for example, all senior vice presidents) might meet regular to discuss developments in their areas, review projects that cut across organizational boundaries, talk about future options, etc. Where there is a large committee, it's common to have smaller committees with more specialized functions - for example, Boards of Directors of large corporations typically have an (ongoing) audit committee, finance committee, compensation committee, etc.\n\n    * Research and recommendations: committees are often formed to do research and make recommendations on a potential or planned project or change. For example, an organization considering a major capital investment might create a committee of several people to review options and make recommendations to upper management or the Board of Directors. Such committees are typically dissolved after issuing recommendations (often in the form of a final report).\n\n    * Project management: while it is generally considered poor management to give operational responsibility to a committee to actually manage a project, this is not unknown. The problem is that no single person can be held accountable for poor performance of the committee, particularly if the chairperson of the committee is seen as a facilitator.\n\nIt is common for a chairperson to organize a committee meeting through an agenda, which is usually distributed in advance. The chairperson is responsible for running meetings: keeping the discussion on the appropriate subject, recognizing members (calling on them to speak) [often omitted in smaller committees], and calling for votes after a debate has taken place [formal voting is normally only done in committees involved in governance]. Governance committees often have formal processes (for example, they might follow Roberts Rules of Order); other types of committees typically operate informally, with the chairperson being responsible for deciding how formal the committee processes will be.\n\nMinutes, a record of the discussion and decisions of the meeting, are often taken by a person designated as the secretary of the committee; they may be legally obligatory (again, typically for governance committees). For committees that meet regularly, the minutes of the most recent meeting are often circulated to committee members before the next meeting.\n\nCommittees may meet on a regular basis, often weekly or yearly, or meetings may be called irregularly as the need arises. During an emergency, a committee may meet more than once per day, or sit in permanent session, as, for example, ExComm (the President's Executive Committee) did during the Cuban missile crisis.\n\nA committee that is a subset of a larger committee is called a subcommittee. [Where the larger group has a name other than "committee" - for example, "Board" or "Commission", the smaller group(s) would be called committee(s), not subcommittee(s)] For organizations where the Board of Directors is large - say 20 people or more - it's common to have an Executive Committee, of Board members, which is authorized to make some decisions on behalf of the entire Board.\n\nCommittees, both permanent and ad hoc (unofficial), appear both in representative democracies and in non-democratic structures. They may bear titles such as Commission, Board, Council, Presidium, or Politburo. Unofficial committees often get unflattering labels such as junta, camarilla or cabal.\n\nCommittees are a necessary aspect of organizations of any significant size (say, more than 15 or 20 pe
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An out of sourt statement by other than the person on the stand (the declarant) to assert the truth of the matter put forward.\n\nI hope this is what you needed.
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The "committee" refers to the several pitchers used in save situations by a team instead of just having one bona fide closer (like Mariano Rivera or Eric Gagne).\n\nFor example, a closer by committee system could have a left-handed pitcher, a right-handed pitcher, a "fireballer" (good for one or two-out situations) and a long relief man (three inning saves).
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It means by reference to Enron and World Com. Basically FAS pronouncements are optional if a US quoted business is run by a crook. The only provisio is that they need to employ crooked auditors to agree with them: FAS 1 states this very clearly.
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Roberts Rules of Order govern the conduct of committee meetings.  Any vote of No Confidence would be substantive and its provisions would be found in the charter, law or bylaws of the organization.
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Chairman. Not Chairperson.
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It is where parliment (the nominal legislative body), delegates legislative authority to some other (unelected) body.     An example would be in health and safety law, in which the Secretary of State confers authority to the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) to draft laws relating to h&S, and to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to enforce those laws, including (in the case of the HSE) criminal investigation and the act of prosecution.       The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974)(HSWA) was the primary legislation pased by parliment (making it a Statute Law - i.e. one passed by parliment) - However the HSWA gave authority to the HSC to enact safety and health regulations, without those regulations being passed by parliment.   By far the most health and safety law, is by way of these regulations (made under the 'umbrella' of the primary HSWA legislation) - but it is not statute law as made by parliment, it is delegated to the HSC to enact, and to the HSE to enforce / prosecute.
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As it relates to New York City building code:\nDirective 14 - 1975 authorizes an Architect or Engineer to ‘sign off’ the construction in place of the Department of Building’s Inspector. This legislation was necessitated by the fact that the volume of construction grew far in excess of the number of available Inspectors.
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This is about a step in the removal of a public official; for challenging a witness in a legal proceeding, see witness impeachment. \n Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868.In the constitutions of several countries, impeachment is the first of two stages in a specific process for a legislative body to remove a government official without that official's agreement.\n\nImpeachment occurs rarely enough for many in a country to misunderstand its nature. A typical misconception is to confuse it with involuntary removal from office; in fact it is only the legal statement of charges, parallelling an indictment in criminal law. An official who is impeached faces a second legislative vote (whether by the same body or another), which determines conviction, or failure to convict, on the charges embodied by the impeachment. Most constitutions require a supermajority to convict.\n\nOne tradition of impeachment has its origins in the law of England and Wales, where the procedure last took place in 1806. Impeachment exists under constitutional law in many nations around the world, including the United States, Brazil, Russia, the Philippines and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nEtymologically, the word "impeachment" derives from Latin roots expressing the idea of becoming caught or entrapped, and has analogues in the modern French verb empêcher (to prevent) and the modern English impede. Medieval popular etymology also associated it (wrongly) with derivations from the Latin impetere (to attack). (In its more frequent and more technical usage, impeachment of a person in the role of a witness is the act challenging the honesty or credibility of that person.)\n\nTRY THIS LINK http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
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Filibuster. Quorum. President Pro Tempore. \n"Christmas tree" bill. Riddick's.
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Appointed.\n\nDo you want the AG to have to answer to lobbyists?
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three~\nLegislative, Judicial, and exceutive\nthe legislative has 2 houses- house of reps. and Senate, it also makes the laws\nJudicial- Supreme Court\nExecutive- Pres., Cabinet, and some other people
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Sounds like both. Orders, briefs, evidence and/or decisions. You'd have to come up with more context to be certain.\n\nIf it's an advertisement for a database program like Concordance, it might make some sense...
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Not usually, an executor is the person that makes sure the will is distributed the way the deceased wanted it done.  They are obligated as the designated executor to do what ever was asked.  You could talk to an estate attorney to get more insight but I'm pretty sure you're stuck.
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Could be "board of tax appeals." Generally, if an abbreviation is used in an opinion, it will also be defined somewhere in that opinion. E.g.: ... the Board of Tax Appeals ("BTA") noted that...
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I don't know if it's actually Canon law or not, but I do know that it's a very strong tradition at the very least. \n\nThe reason is so the former priest doesn't come in to interfere with the current priest's ministry. \n\nAt our church, the retired rector respectfully stayed away for two years so our new priest could reorder matters to his own preference. He now discreetly attends services towards the back of the church. In addition, two other retired Episcopal priests also attend services, but decline to serve on committees, lest it be interpreted as an attempt to interfere.