With the SOA Clay is the president of the Mother Charter. He can call on other charters to assist as needed, but so can any president of any chapter. He does not control the other charters, but it would be biker suicide to not respond to the call of help from the mother charters calls for help. if anything that affects any other charter needs to be done, a vote is held with the presidents and VPs if the affected charters. just like the patchover episode. they did not force the bikers in nevada to patchover, they put it to a vote, some stayed, some didnt. thats how it works, kinda like a twisted democracy.