|
Digest of Decisions Amendments for the One Day Class
In order to give our Lodges the opportunity to participate in the One Day Class during October/November 2005, the following decisions are effective immediately and may be used only for the One Day Class:
- A petition for the degrees shall be in the form prescribed by the Grand Lodge, shall be presented to the Lodge at a Stated, Extra or Special Meeting, shall be read, noted in the Minutes and referred to a Committee of Inquiry. The petition shall lie over to a subsequent Stated or Special Meeting and be voted on. The Masonic Month requirement is waived if a Special Meeting is called for balloting.
Petitions printed for the 2004 One Day Class may be used for the 2005 One Day Class.
- Lodges meeting in the month of the One Day Class (October/November) may vote on petitioners at a Special Meeting without publishing the names in the Notice provided the Committee of Inquiry has reported favorably. Postcards notifying the Members of Special Meetings may be used provided no names of petitioners are printed on the postcard.
- Multiple balloting will be permitted on any number of petitioners.
- Approved petitioners may be held for the One Day Class regardless of their date of approval waiving the six-month rule.
- Website applicants may have the recommenders' signatures typed or printed, provided the Lodge Secretary verifies them.
- Proficiency before advancement will not be required; however, Lodges are requested to have Mentors/Members available to instruct candidates between the degrees.
- The conferral of all three degrees on one day (October/November) is authorized without seeking the approval of the R.W. Grand Master.
- Organizations that have as a prerequisite membership in the Masonic Fraternity may solicit and receive petitions from candidates for the One Day Class for their respective Bodies.
|
