APPROVED TEXT
¶5 Procedure for Hearings on a Ban:
Hearings on a Ban are convened and conducted in the same manner as Hearings on a Community Disruption, except that a recommendation by a jury to ban a member is not final.
If the recommendation of the jury is to ban the member, the members at large will then vote on whether or not to accept this recommendation. The vote will be held in the Business Forum for ten days.
If the vote of the membership is tied, the recommendation of the jury will hold.
If the recommendation to ban is overturned by a vote of the membership, the poster will be on three-month probation. If new bannable offenses are committed during that period, a new jury will be convened according to the same terms as above, but this time the decision of the jury will be final.
The Hearing thread will be locked as soon as: (a) the poster has not been banned by the jury, or (b) the vote of the membership has concluded, or (c) a probation period has expired, whichever of these comes last.
The locked thread may be deleted at the request of the member.
Hearings to reverse a ban do not require a vote of the membership. Conditions under which these hearings may take place are given in Article 3, ¶5.
Elements of these cases may be summarized and preserved in the Archive with the member’s name deleted.
[approved May 17, 2005]