3335-5-47.3. Rules committee

(A) Membership.

The rules committee shall consist of eleven members.

(1) Six faculty. senators appointed by the executive committee of the faculty council

(2) Three students.

(a) One graduate student.

(b) One professional student.

(c) One undergraduate student.

(3) One staff senator, appointed by the university staff advisory committee.

(4) One administrator. The secretary of the university senate.

(B) Duties and responsibilities.

(1) Be responsible, in cooperation with the secretary of the university senate, for the monitoring of the "Rules of the University Faculty" and of all statutes and bylaws pertaining to the senate.

(2) Ensure that all published rules and bylaws within the senate's purview are up to date, and recommend their republication at such intervals as may be desirable.

(3) Make recommendations for the revision of the procedural rules of the senate.

(4) Before senate action, the committee shall receive all proposed new rules and changes in existing rules. It shall review them and recommend such editorial or other changes it deems necessary to avoid conflict with other rules, to enhance clarity and precision, and to avoid ambiguity.

(5) Initiate rules or changes in existing rules and recommend them to the steering committee for scheduling for senate action.

(6) The secretary of the university senate in agreement with the rules committee may make non-substantive corrections in diction and grammar, and is authorized to correct names of offices, officers, units, credentials or constituents in the bylaws and in the rules without deliberation by the university senate nor by the board of trustees.

(C) Organization.

As an organizing committee of the senate, this committee is also governed by the provisions of rules 3335-5-46 and 3335-5-47 of the Administrative Code.

Effective: 11/9/2020
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: RC 3335
Rule Amplifies: RC 3335.08
Prior Effective Dates: 03/13/1978, 08/08/1978, 01/28/1980, 03/17/1980, 04/20/1981, 02/06/1983, 05/11/1984, 04/29/1985, 12/15/1985, 04/27/1986, 06/16/1986, 08/18/1986, 03/05/1988, 06/21/1993, 01/27/1995, 07/11/1996, 04/09/2001, 07/01/2005, 07/28/2010, 07/01/2014