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There are two Executive Teams, the Primary Executive Team and the External Executive Team. The External Executive Team administers external affairs, and the Primary Executive Team administers everything else.
When the primary executive team doesn't exist, the CEO fulfills the role of the primary executive team; that is, all executive power which is not external and which is not vested in some quasi-independent agency is vested in the CEO.
When the external executive team doesn't exist, the EEO fulfills the role of the external executive team; that is, all executive power relating to external affairs is vested in the EEO.
When there are 7 or more positions in the primary elect commission, a primary executive team must be created with at least three positions in addition to the CEO. Before this time, a primary executive team may be created by statue, but is not necessarily created.
If there has been 7 or more positions in the primary elect commission for over two months and no statue has yet created the primary executive team, then the primary executive team is automatically created with three positions; Treasurer (whose portfolio includes finances), Program Officer (whose portfolio includes programs directly relating to the primary purposes of the organization), Miscellaneous executive (whose portfolio includes everything not currently covered by another portfolio; for example, personnelle, legal compliance).
An external executive team may be created by statue, but is not necessarily created. If there are ever 7 or more positions in the external elect commission, then an external executive team must be created, but as the bylaws are currently written, this will never happen.
If there has been 7 or more positions in the primary elect commission for over two months and no statue has yet created the primary executive team, then the primary executive team is automatically created with three positions; Public Relations (whose portfolio includes efforts to communicate with the public, advertising, and branding), Negotiation and Development (whose portfolio includes negotations of relationships with other entities), Miscellaneous External Executive (whose portfolio includes everything which is external yet is not currently covered by another portfolio; for example, handling conflicts with other entities via legal manuvering, etc).
When the position of CEO is combined with that of EEO, the Primary Executive Team may also function as the External Executive Team, if dictated by statue.
The primary executive team may contain at most ceil((number of positions in primary elect commission)/2) positions.
The external executive team may contain at most ceil((number of positions in external elect commission)/2) positions.
When the minimal and maximum sizes differ, the actual number of positions may be determined by statue.
The CEO or EEO nominates members for their team. Members are confirmed by passage of a bill of confirmation, which has a vote threshold of 2/5.
The CEO or EEO may dismiss any member of their team for any time or any reason, except that a CEO or EEO may not dismiss a member if a vacancy would be caused such that the vacant portfolio could not be reassigned to another team member.
Between the time when an executive team member is dismissed, and when a new member is confirmed for that position, there is a vacancy. During that time, the CEO or EEO (depending on which team it is) may temporarily assign the portfolio associated with the vacany to another executive team member.
A statue may forbid certain combinations of portfolios caused by temporary assignment. The CEO or EEO may never hold any portfolio.
Confirmation for a replacement member may occur before dismissal. Dismissal can occur without any vacancy if the member to be dismissed is immediately replaced by a confirmed replacement.
Executive team members retain their position until dismissed or until they reach their term limit. In particular, they are not removed just because the CEO or EEO is dismissed.
A simple majority of an executive team may veto any action of any one of its members within that member's portfolio. Vetos may be pre-emptive.
