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Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 32.
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(3) Neglect or refusal to perform duties of office
(4) No longer satisfying any of the qualifications for directors set forth in the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the entity as in effect at the beginning of the member’s term
(5) Conviction of a felony
(6) Failure to disclose conflicts of interest to the Synod or agency
(7) Conduct evidencing a scandalous life
(8) Advocacy of false doctrine (Constitution Art. II)
(9) Failure to honor and uphold the doctrinal position of the Synod
(10) Accumulation of three unexcused absences within any term of office
1.5.7.1 Unless otherwise specified in these Bylaws, the procedure for removal of a
member of a commission, agency board, or the LCMS Board of Directors, except for those persons subject to Bylaw sections 2.15 and 2.16, shall be as follows:
(a) Action for removal shall require written notice to each member of the relevant commission, agency board, or LCMS Board of Directors at least 30 days prior to a special meeting of the commission, agency board, or LCMS Board of Directors called for that purpose. A copy of such notice shall be sent to the President and the Secretary of the Synod and to the ecclesiastical supervisor, if applicable.
(b) The special meeting shall be held no later than 60 days after the provision of the written notice, unless extended by the mutual agreement of the parties.
(c) Removal shall be effected by
(1) recommendation of such to the Synod’s Board of Directors by a vote in favor of removal by at least three -fourths of all current members (excluding the person whose membership is in question) of the applicable commission, agency board, or LCMS Board of Directors; and
(2) by a vote in favor of the recommendation of removal by at least three-fourths of all current members (excluding the person whose membership is in question) of the Board of Directors of the Synod.
(d) Removal may be appealed by a member who has been removed from a commission, agency board, or the LCMS Board of Directors through the use of the Synod’s dispute resolution process as provided in Bylaw section 1.10.
(e) From the time that written notice is given until the commission, agency board, or the LCMS Board of Directors takes action with respect to the removal, the member(s) subject to removal may not vote on matters before the commission, agency board, or LCMS Board of Directors.
(f) If a Concordia University System (CUS) college or university board of regents is presented with a written notice from the CUS Board of Directors, a copy of which shall also have been sent to the President and Secretary of the Synod and to any applicable ecclesiastical supervisor, detailing the basis for cause for removal of a member of the board of
