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Proposed Amendments.
Governing Bodies
G-9.0407
G-9.0407
a. The congregation of a particular
General
church and the committees, bodies,
Administrative and organizations of
that church, shall
Review
report annually all proceedings and
actions
to the session, which shall
review and summarize them and
incorporate the summary into its
minutes.
Annual b. The
moderator, the stated clerk, the
Reporting councils,
commissions, committees,
boards,
agencies, and organizations of
a respective Presbytery, Sub-Synod, and
of
each Primary Synod (Auburn and
Westminster), shall report annually
all the proceedings and actions of
those
respective bodies to their
Primary
Synod (Westminster
and Auburn), which shall review
them.
Review of c. The moderator,
stated clerk, the
Records councils,
commissions, committees,
boards, agencies, and organizations
of the General Assembly shall report
at least biennially all proceedings
and actions of the General Assembly,
to the General Assembly Council
which
shall review them.
d. The
Primary Synods (Auburn and
Westminster) shall review the records
of the proceedings of their respective
Sub-Synods
and Presbyteries.
(1) Presbyteries shall review the
records of member sessions,
aligned with the same Primary
Synod, which are in the Presbytery's
geographic area, once each year.
If a session fails to submit its records
for that purpose, the presbytery
shall order them to be produced
at a specific time.
(2) The Sub-Synods shall review the
records
of Presbyteries, aligned with
the
same Primary Synod (Auburn or
Westminster) as the Sub-Synod,
in their geographic region,
once
each year. If a Presbytery
shall
fail to submit its records
for this purpose, the Sub-Synod
shall order them to be produced
at
a specific time.
(3)
The Primary Synods (Westminster
and
Auburn) shall review the
records of their respective
Sub-Synods at least bienially.
If a Sub-Synod fails to submit
its records for this purpose, the
respective
Primary Synod
shall order them to be produced
at a specific time.
(4) The Primary Synods (Auburn
and
Westminster) shall provide
summaries of records and
statistics regarding their
respective Sub-Synods and
Presbyteries,
biennially to
the General Assembly.
G-9.0408 If
a Primary Synod (Westminster
Special or Auburn) or one of
their
Administrative respective Sub-Synods,or
Review
Presbyteries learns at any time
of any irregularities or delinquency
by a lower governing body, it may
require the governing body to
produce any records and take
any
appropriate action required
by their Primary Synod
(Auburn or Westminster).
G-9.0409 a. When
a Primary Synod
Manner of (Westminster or Auburn)
Review reviews the proceedings
of
a lower governing
body, the Primary Synod
shall determine either from
the records of those
proceedings or from any
other information as may
come to its attention,
whether:
(1) The proceedings have
been correctly recorded
(2) The proceedings have
been regular and in
accordance with the
Constitution.
(3) The proceedings have
been prudent and
equitable;
(4) The proceedings have
been faithful to the
mission of the Primary
Synod and of the whole
church.
(5) And that the lawful injunctions
of their respective Primary
Synod have been obeyed.
Who May Not When a Primary Synod (Auburn
Vote
or Westminster) is reviewing
the actions of one of their
Sub-Synods
or Presbyteries,
members
of the lower
governing
bodies who
are also
members of their
Primary
Synod's General
Council or are a member
of their Sub-Synods General
Council, may participate in
the discussions, but may not
vote.
G-9.0410 It is ordinarily sufficient
for the
Primary
Synods to record their
own proceedings, and with regard
to
those proceedings record its approval,
disapproval, or correction.
If necessary, the Primary
Synod
may direct a lower
governing body, within the
same Primary Synod, to
reconsider and correct
an irregularity or cure a
delinquency.
G-9.0411 In addition to administrative
Review and review by a Primary
Correction
by Synod (Westminster
Judicial
or Auburn) of their lower
Process governing
bodies actions,
one
or more persons who
filed a complaint may obtain
judicial process by filing a
complaint with their Primary
Synod's Permanent Judicial
Commission, with which the
complainants
are aligned.
G-9.0501
a. (Unchanged)
Committee
Membership
b. (Unchanged)
G-9-0502
(Unchanged)
Commission
G-9.0503
a. Commissions appointed by
Administrative sessions,
Presbyteries,
and Judicial
Sub-Synods, or by
one
of the two Primary
Synods (Auburn or
Westminster), may be
either Administrative or
Judicial, except in the case of
sessions, which may only
appoint Administrative
commissions.
The functions
ordinarily
entrusted to an
administrative commission
are:
(1) to ordain ministers of the
Word and Sacrament and
to install them in permanent
pastoral relations;
(2) to organize churches. When
such commissions are appointed
by a Presbytery to
organize new congregations,
in
accordance with their Primary
Primary Synod's guidelines,
the
respective Presbytery
may
authorize that commission
to assume any and all powers
and responsibilities of a session
for the benefit and ministry of
the new congregation. The
respective Presbytery may
authorize their commission to
delegate such powers and
responsibilities to a committee
of the new congregation.
(a)
For immigrant fellowships with
roots in the Reformed Tradition,
after they choose a Primary Synod
(Auburn or Westminster) may
join that Primary Synod's local
geographic Presbytery if the
Presbytery determines: (1)
that its strategy for mission with
that constituency is similar, and
(2)
that the chosen lay leadership
of the immigrant fellowship has
an adequate number of elders
and session members; then
the Presbytery or its
Administrative Commission may
recognize
their status and
proceed
to recognize
those
leaders as elders.
In
making this determination the
Presbytery shall be guided by
written guidelines developed by
their Primary Synod (Auburn
or Westminster)
(b)
(Unchanged)
(3) (Unchanged)
(4) (Unchanged)
(5)
(Unchanged)
(6) (Unchanged)
(7) (Unchanged)
G-9.0503.0505 b.
The function of a Judicial
Judicial
Commission is to consider
and decide cases brought
before
the Presbytery,
Sub-Synod
or the Primary Synod
by
litigants or moving parties
aligned with the same Primary
Synod
(Westminster or
Auburn),
as the governing
body, before which the case
is being heard, according to the
Rules of Discipline.
Additional c.
(Unchanged)
Duties
G-9.0504
a. An administrative commission
Membership of
a session shall consist of at
least
two elders and the moderator
of the session or other minister
of the Word and Sacrament
installed in a permanent
position
or relationship within
the particular congregation.
which
is governed by the session.
Equal Number b.
Administrative and Judicial Commissioners
of Ministers
of a Presbytery, Sub-Synod, and and Elders of
the Primary Synods (Auburn and
Westminster)
shall be composed
of ministers of the Word and
Sacrament and elders in numbers
as
nearly equal as possible. When
the commission consists of an
odd number of members, the
additional member may be either
an elder or a minister of the Word
and Sacrament. The Elders and
Ministers
of the Word and
Sacrament are required to be
aligned with the same Primary
Synod as the governing
body before which they are
adjudicating the case.
Administrative
(1) When an Administrative Commission
Commisions or
Judicial Commission is impaneled,
Judicial Commisions by one of the Primary
Synod's
and the
(Auburn or Westminster), to hear
Primary Synods
a matter before that specific
Primary Synod (Westminster or Auburn);
then,
not fewer than fifteen members
will comprise the Administrative
Commission or Judicial Commission
of that Primary Synod (Auburn or
Westminster). At least one member
of the Administrative Commission or
Judicial Commission shall come
from
each of that specific Primary
Synod's constituent Sub-Synods.
This shall be the minimum
number
of members of the Administrative
and/or Judicial Commission. The decisions
of an Administrative and Judicial
Commission of one of the Primary Synod's
(Auburn or Westminster)
shall
not be binding on the other Primary
Synod, (Westminster or Auburn),
neither will it be binding on
any of the governing bodies of
the other Primary Synod. The
decisions
or findings of the
Permanent Judicial Commission
or Administrative Commission
will only be binding on the
governing bodies aligned with
the same Primary Synod,
(Auburn or Westminster), that
the Permanent Judicial
Commission or Administrative
Commission, that rendered
the findings or decision, is
aligned
with, (Westminster or
Auburn).
Sub-Synods
(2) A Sub-Synod, that
impanels
a Permanent Judicial Commission
or forms an Administrative
Commission will provide that
not
fewer than eleven numbers
shall be appointed
to the Administrative or Judicial
Commissions, with, not more than one
member from any of of its constituent
Presbyteries, aligned with the same
Primary Synod (Auburn or Westminster)
as the Sub-Synod. The decisions
of the Sub-Synod's Permanent
Judicial Commission and
Administrative Commissions
are
only binding on the
Presbyteries within its
jurisdiction that are aligned
with the same Primary Synod
(Westminster or Auburn),
as the Sub-Synod.
Presbytery
(3) for each Presbytery,
that impanels a Permanent
Judicial
Commission or
Administrative Commission, not
fewer
than seven members, shall
comprise an Administrative
or Judicial Commission and
they shall come from the
constituent congregations
that are aligned with
the same Primary Synod
(Westminster or Auburn),
as the Presbytery. A Presbytery
may
reduce the number to five
members, with not more than
one
of the members being from
any one church. The decisions
and findings of the Permanent
Judicial Commission or
Administrative Commission
under the jurisdiction of
a Presbytery, are only
binding on the member
congregations aligned with
the same Primary Synod
(Auburn or Westminster)
as the Presbytery, whose
Permanent Judicial
Commission or
Administrative
Commission rendered
the decision or findings
Quorum c.
(Unchanged)
G-9.0505 a.
(Unchanged)
Decisions
Hearings and b.
(Unchanged)
Fair Procedures
Additional c.
(Unchanged)
Procedural
Process d.
(Unchanged)
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