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From my experience, chapters (and any group for that matter) need to be very careful about eligability requirements for officers (X amount of time in the org, certain positions must be held to be eligable for others, etc).

What might seem like a good idea when your chapter/org is large and there are many people who meet the requirements and are willing to run, can be a stranglehold on the org if you suddenly face a sitution where no one is eligable to run for all or certain officers.

A compromise would be that if your chapter insists on having such eligability requirements, that you put them in your standing rules and NOT your bylaws. This way you can suspend them if they are in your standing rules and do so at that meeting, whereas you can't supsend them if they are in your bylaws, and if you want to remove them, that will require amending your bylaws, which should be a non-trivial matter and will (and should) take some time.