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Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 105.
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(b) If the district has no executive staff, it may select two members of its board of directors.
3.1.4.6 Each district may be represented by two youth representatives at
conventions of the Synod.
(a) Youth representatives may be selected as a district may specify.
(b) They may speak at the request of a floor committee and with the permission of the chair.
Responsibilities of Advisory Delegates and Representatives
3.1.5 Advisory delegates and representatives shall have voice but no vote and
shall be entitled to the floor to express their opinion the same as voting members.
3.1.5.1 Advisory delegates and representatives shall be eligible for membership on
committees and for offices of the convention unless otherwise specified.
3.1.5.2 All duly elected advisory delegates and representatives shall attend all
sessions regularly until the close of the convention. Delegates who arrive late or leave early or who do not attend at all shall present a written excuse.
Reports and Overtures
3.1.6 The principal business of a convention of the Synod shall be the
consideration of reports and overtures. Reports and overtures shall be submitted to the President of the Synod not later than 20 weeks prior to the opening date of the convention.
(a) No report or overture received subsequent to that date shall be accepted for convention consideration unless a committee consisting of the President, the First Vice -President, and the Secretary adjudge it to be a matter of overriding importance and urgency which is not adequately covered by documents already before the convention.
(b) Overtures and recommendations involving capital outlay or current expenditures shall be accompanied, to the extent feasible, by cost projections and the basis thereof.
Reports
3.1.6.1 Reports to a convention of the Synod may be submitted only by the
President, a vice -president, the Secretary, the Chief Financial Officer, the Board of Directors of the Synod, a board or commission of the Synod as listed in Bylaws 3.2.2, 3.2.2.1, 3.2.3, and 3.2.3.1, and other individuals or duly constituted groups who may be required or permitted to do so by the Bylaws, by action of a prior convention of the Synod, or by the President.
(a) Reports are statements of work performed or contemplated by those who are charged with conducting the business of the Synod between conventions, communications to a convention with respect to studies that may have been made for the Synod in order to further its work, or other types of communications to the Synod.
(b) A report shall not include an overture unless the report is submitted by someone authorized to submit overtures.
Overtures
3.1.6.2 Overtures to a convention of the Synod may be submitted only by a
member congregation of the Synod, a convention or board of directors of a district, an official district conference of ordained and/or commissioned
