This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
Each section of the Oklahoma Bar Association gets to create its own set of internal rules, called bylaws. These bylaws work like a guidebook for how that specific section runs itself and makes decisions.
There's an important limit though. A section's bylaws can't conflict with the Oklahoma Supreme Court's rules or with the main bylaws of the Bar Association itself. Think of it like a company branch office that can set its own office policies, but those policies still have to follow the parent company's overall rules.
Before a section's bylaws actually take effect, the Board of Governors has to approve them. So even after a section writes its own bylaws, they don't become official until this higher authority signs off on them. This creates a check to make sure everything stays consistent across the whole organization.
