To Amend Various Bylaws for Purposes of Clarification or Improvement

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To Amend Various Bylaws  
for Purposes of Clarification or Improvement 
Preamble 
The Commission on Handbook (COH), responding to a variety of 
observations from officers, agencies, and members of the Synod, 
has proposed amendments to bylaws that have given opportunity to 
confusion or required repeated or nonobvious interpretation by the  
Commission on Constitutional Matters (CCM). These are presented 
together for the sake of convention efficiency but each is logically 
independent of the others: 
A.  TO AMEND THE BYLAWS TO PROVIDE A 
MECHANISM FOR HANDLING SECRETARY 
INCAPACITY  
Rationale 
In its review (Op. 22-3002) of the Board of Directors (BOD) Policy 
Manual, the CCM noted that Policy 4.6.3.3, providing that “[t]he 
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