Title: Policy on Sanctions
Date Passed: 2007-04-23
Text:

The SIPB shall use a fair process, open to the public, in order to
consider any sanction against an affiliate (member, prospective or
guest) other than revocation of membership, unless requested otherwise
by the respondent (the affiliate).  Within this process, the
respondent will be informed of the reasons sanctions are being
considered and will be given an opportunity to respond.  The vote on
such sanctions may be by secret ballot.  Under no conditions may a
member, complainant or the respondent be excluded from this fair
process by the SIPB.  This policy does not apply to interim measures.
The exclusion of an affiliate from the process of creating or
maintaining a SIPB project shall not be considered a sanction under
this policy.

Clarification (2016-04-15):

The process specified in this policy is distinct from the discipline
process described in Section X.1 of the Constitution of the Board. In
no way does this policy limit or otherwise affect the powers of the
Executive Committee to sanction, which are only limited by the
Constitution.