Resolution #2 Change to Article III on Meetings of the Convention
(Second Reading)
Adopted as presented

ARTICLE III. Meetings of the Convention.

Sec. 1. The Convention is hereby established as the legislative body of the Diocese, and it shall exercise such powers at its annual or special meetings as are not held by the Bishop or other entity of the Diocese.

Sec. 2. Membership in the Convention shall be determined in accordance with Article IV of this Constitution and the Canons of the Diocese.

Sec. 3. Sec.1. The Annual Meeting of the A Convention of the Church in this Diocese shall be held annually, at such time and place as shall have been appointed by action of a preceding meeting of the Convention. The Bishop, or if there be no Bishop, the Standing Committee, for any good or urgent cause moving thereto, may change the time and place appointed.

Sec. 4. Sec. 2. Special meetings of the Convention, when necessary, may be called by the Ecclesiastical Authority Bishop, or, in the case of vacancy in the Episcopate, or the inability of the Bishop to act, from sickness, absence, or other cause, by the Standing Committee. At least thirty days' notice shall be given of the time and place of, and the business to be transacted at, such meeting to all the Clergy entitled to seats and to all Parishes and Missions entitled to representation. No other business shall be transacted than that stated in the notice of such meeting for which such Convention was called.

Comment: There is no substantive change. This Article was reworded for clarity and to specify the implied provision that the notice of the meeting must include not only the time and place of the meeting but also must specify the business to be transacted at that meeting. [Back]