Passed · 2019-05-17

FH3 Community Bylaws

Adopts the FH3 Community Bylaws as the founding governance record for the Fruit Haven 3 community area and maps their rules into the RCOS layer artifacts.

Decision type

constitutional

Layers affected

L0, L1, L2, L3, L5, L6

Vote

Consensus achieved

• Status: Passed
• Submitted: 2019-05-17
• Submitted by: Fruit Haven 1 community members
• Decision type: Constitutional
• Authorized decision path: Consensus meeting under the FH3 Community Bylaws

Summary

Adopts the FH3 Community Bylaws, passed by consensus at a Fruit Haven 1 community meeting on 2019-05-17, as the founding governance record for the Fruit Haven 3 community area (~66.4302 hectares, Sector Chuchumbleza Alto, Parroquia Tundayme, Canton El Pangui, Provincia Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador), covering the community’s purpose, membership/residency rules, decision-making, land allotment, treasury accounting, lifestyle constraints, operational roles, and ratification requirements. The adopted bylaws were later mapped into the RCOS layer architecture.

Affected Layers and Artifacts

• Layer 0 - layers/0-identity/01-purpose-charter (Art. 2: non-profit purpose and vision)
• Layer 0 - layers/0-identity/02-scope-declaration (Art. 1: community name; Art. 2.03: vision statement)
• Layer 0 - layers/0-identity/03-invariants-register (Art. 12: rights of community members)
• Layer 0 - layers/0-identity/04-identity-constraints-register (Art. 10: ethics and lifestyle constraints — veganism, raw foods, no domesticated animals, nudism, personal hygiene, substance policy)
• Layer 1 - layers/1-membership/01-membership-agreement (Art. 8: residency rules; Art. 13: ratification and signature requirement)
• Layer 1 - layers/1-membership/04-membership-state-registry (Art. 8.02: five classes of persons — trustees, volunteers, community residents, community members, guests)
• Layer 2 - layers/2-governance/01-decision-matrix (Art. 11.03–11.04: jurisdiction of decisions; unanimity-minus-one rule for expulsion; trustee authority over property-value and legal-risk decisions)
• Layer 2 - layers/2-governance/02-governance-protocol (Art. 11.01–11.02: consensus decision-making process; voting power requirements; community meeting procedures and minutes)
• Layer 2 - layers/2-governance/04-federation-protocol (Art. 6.02: hierarchy of governing documents — community bylaws subordinate to the Fruit Haven Sovereignty and Jurisdiction Doctrine, FH3 Trustee Bylaws, Fruit Haven Community Sovereignty Doctrine, and FH3 Trustee Legal Contract)
• Layer 3 - layers/3-economy/02-treasury-ruleset (Art. 9: community fund establishment and public accounting requirements)
• Layer 3 - layers/3-economy/03-land-allotment-protocol (Art. 7: community area, private homestead areas, and nature reserve definitions)
• Layer 5 - layers/5-operations/02-role-registry (Art. 3–4: committees and officer positions; Volunteer Program Coordinator role)
• Layer 6 - layers/6-evolution/01-change-protocol (Art. 5: periodic decentralization review; Art. 6.01: bylaws amendment by unanimous vote of voting-power members)

Change Type

• Permanent rule change
• Time-bounded experiment

Rationale

The Fruit Haven 3 community area needed a written, ratified founding governance record defining its name, purpose, vision, authority hierarchy, decision-making process, member/resident categories, land-use boundaries, shared treasury expectations, lifestyle commitments (veganism, raw foods, no domesticated animals, hygiene, substance policy), member rights, meeting records, and role responsibilities. Archiving this passed proposal keeps the original bylaws decision linked to the RCOS artifacts that now carry the current authoritative state.

Risks and Mitigations

Risk: The original bylaws combine constitutional, strategic, operational, and lifestyle rules in a single document, which can make later interpretation unclear.

Mitigation: The RCOS adaptation separates the adopted bylaws into layer-specific artifacts, with each artifact carrying its own ratification record and this proposal as the shared decision record.

Risk: Some original bylaws language depends on trustee/legal-contract authority outside the RCOS repository.

Mitigation: The affected RCOS artifacts preserve trustee jurisdiction where the bylaws require it and distinguish community-area governance from private homestead and legal-risk decisions.

Transition and Migration Plan

Map the adopted bylaws into the RCOS layer artifacts listed above. Current property owners are granted transitional Active Member status under the Membership State Registry, except where existing bylaws-based removal or exclusion decisions apply.

Rollback Plan

Rollback requires a new Constitutional decision using the active governance process. Because the bylaws are the founding governance record for the FH3 community area, rollback must define replacement rules for purpose, membership/residency, decision-making, land allotment, treasury accounting, lifestyle constraints, and operational authority before this record can be superseded.

Effective Date

2019-05-17

Review Date (if experiment or time-bounded)

N/A

Decision Record

• Vote outcome: Passed
• Vote date: 2019-05-17
• Mechanism: Consensus meeting
• Snapshot link: Source document: FH3_Community_Bylaws.pdf
• Signatories / vote count: Consensus achieved at Fruit Haven 1 community meeting

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