Well no -- but if you want to be a legitimate PTO, and not at the mercy of the whims of your principal (or the whims of a self-appointed president with a hand-picked board), then writing bylaws should be among your first steps, not something you do after the fact. Check out PTO Today's start-up guide for advice on how to get started.

Our PTO board members were appointed by the President, who was self appointed, and we don't have any bylaws. We were planning on writing bylaws by the end of the calendar year and then holding elections in January. However, the principal just disbanded our PTO because she said we were not a legal group because we were not elected or had bylaws written. So my question is, do you have to have bylaws and be elected to be a PTO board?