To Amend Constitution Article XII 15 as to Call of Special District Conventions

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To Amend Constitution Article XII 15  
as to Call of Special District Conventions 
Rationale 
In its periodic review of various district bylaws, the Commission on 
Constitutional Matters (CCM, minutes of April 8 –9, 2022) has 
noted the following: 
• Bylaw 1.5.8.1, introduced by 2016 Res. 12-11, “To Establish 
a Procedure Based on Article XI A 2  for Removal from 
Office of Officers of the Synod or a District (other than the 
Synod or a District  President),” provides a procedure for 
removal of such officers, to the noted exclusion of the Synod 
or district president. 
• District bylaws typically contain provisions for a finding of 
temporary inability of a district president to serve (generally 
modeled on Bylaw 3.3.1.4) and sometimes attempt to 
conceive a procedure, in addition to the inapplicable one in 
Bylaw 1.5.8.1, to handle the removal of a district  president 
from office for cause. Such a proposal necessarily treads on 
difficult ground, as the  limitations on a board of directors’ 
authority (its dealing, generally, with legal and property 
matters, Bylaw 4.5.1, and not extending to supervision of the 
district president’s ecclesiastical duties) raise  questions 
about whether it would be the appropriate body to act, and 
on what basis. 
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