cmba-bylaws/.ai/skills/example-sports-org-bylaws/SKILL.md

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example-sports-org-bylaws	Use this skill when drafting or reviewing bylaws, constitutions, or governance provisions for sports organizations and you want to compare against local example documents for leagues, youth baseball organizations, or sport-specific associations stored in this repository.

Sports Organization Bylaws Examples

Use this skill when the task benefits from comparing governance language across existing sports-organization bylaws rather than drafting from scratch.

When To Use

• Use this skill when drafting or revising bylaws, constitutions, or governance articles for a sports league, club, or association.
• Use this skill when the user wants example language for membership, board structure, meetings, officers, elections, discipline, dues, or dissolution provisions in a sports context.
• Use this skill when the draft needs operational articles that are common in sports organizations, such as eligibility, team structure, postseason rules, awards, or volunteer requirements.
• Use this skill when comparing how different sports organizations separate core governance from game- or league-administration rules.

Scope

These are example documents, not governing authorities.

• Use them as comparative models for structure, article sequencing, and clause options.
• Do not treat any one example as the default best practice for every organization.
• Where a task also depends on nonprofit corporate law or tax-exempt language, pair this skill with the local nonprofit skill and check the legal framework separately.

References

• references/chesapeake-msbl.md: adult baseball league bylaws with nonprofit framing, board governance, dues, meetings, discipline, finances, all-star provisions, and postseason awards.
• references/dartball.md: church dartball league rules and governance mix, useful as an example of where sport operations and governance provisions are combined in one document.
• references/little-league.md: Little League local league constitution template with member classes, board composition, officer duties, compliance expectations, and strong youth-sports governance structure.

Load only the reference file or files that match the organization's type and drafting need.

Selection Guidance

• Start with little-league.md when the organization is youth-focused, volunteer-heavy, member-driven, or needs a formal board-and-officer constitution structure.
• Start with chesapeake-msbl.md when the organization is an adult amateur league and needs examples for dues, team participation, disciplinary authority, league operations, or baseball-specific administration.
• Read dartball.md when the organization blends league governance and sport rules in one document, or when you need a cautionary example of how those layers can become mixed together.

Workflow

1. Identify the organization's type: youth league, adult league, club, association, or faith/community-based sports organization.
2. Decide whether the task is about core governance, sport operations, or both.
3. Read the most relevant example document first instead of loading all examples.
4. Extract the useful structure and clause patterns, then rewrite them to fit the target organization.
5. Separate reusable governance concepts from sport-specific procedural rules unless the user explicitly wants them combined.
6. Normalize terminology, thresholds, officer titles, and article numbering so the final draft is internally consistent.

Drafting Rules

• Treat examples as source material for adaptation, not copy-paste boilerplate.
• Distinguish governance provisions from playing rules, roster rules, award rules, and tournament procedures.
• If the target organization wants a clean bylaws document, move sport-specific competition rules into separate policies, league rules, or appendices.
• Keep membership, voting, board powers, officer duties, and amendment procedures coherent as a set.
• Remove organization-specific names, places, sport terms, thresholds, and compliance references that do not belong in the target draft.
• If using Little League-derived material, preserve only what fits the target organization's actual governing framework and external obligations.

Comparison Use Cases

These references are especially useful for:

• comparing member-based versus board-centric governance;
• choosing how much operational detail belongs in bylaws;
• drafting officer duty sections with enough specificity to be useful;
• modeling discipline, suspension, and removal procedures; and
• deciding whether financial controls such as dual signatures, budgets, and audits should appear in the bylaws.

Output Pattern

For drafting support, prefer:

1. the recommended model source or mix of sources;
2. the revised clause or article outline;
3. short notes explaining which example informed each major choice; and
4. any provisions that should be split into separate league rules instead of staying in the bylaws.

What Not To Do

• Do not assume an example organization's governance model fits the user's organization unchanged.
• Do not copy sport-specific operating rules into a general bylaws draft unless that is intentional.
• Do not import organization-specific facts, placeholders, or external-regime requirements without confirming they apply.
• Do not confuse illustrative example language with legal requirements.