RE: Club Officers
RCO
Most times when questions are raised about clubs, the question is asked: "What do the club by-laws say". Some clubs are democratic to the extreme and everything has to be run by the membership and voted on. At the other extreme is a club where the club was put together by the landlord and a few close friends. In this case, the by-laws may be written in such a manner that the rest of the club has virtually no say in any aspect of running the club. Most clubs fall somewhere between.
The AMA does not run clubs, nor tell them how they must be run, beyond some very rudimentary requirements. Dues process for the membership comes to mind as a requirement, as does an non-discrimination policy. On the other side of the coin, clubs may or may not be corporations, or 501 © 7 organizations, or devoted to some specific realm of modeling such as ff, or rc soaring, etc.
The answer to the question “What can and do officers get by with” is similar to asking “how long is a piece of string”. There needs to be a lot more information about a specific club to answer it.