60 – Application of This Article.

§ 60. Application of this article. This article applies only to a Presbyterian church in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

61 – Creation and Termination of Pastoral Relation.

§ 61. Creation and termination of pastoral relation. The election, calling, settlement, installation, dismissal, removal, translation, constituting or dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or changing of the salary of a minister or pastor of a Presbyterian church in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), or taking any action for […]

62 – Worship.

§ 62. Worship. Nothing in this chapter contained shall authorize the fixing or changing of the times, nature or order of public worship of any particular Presbyterian church in any other manner, or by any other authority than in the manner and by the authority provided in the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

63 – Incorporation of Unincorporated Presbyterian Churches and Decision as to System of Incorporation and Government.

§ 63. Incorporation of unincorporated Presbyterian churches and decision as to system of incorporation and government. A meeting for the purpose of incorporation of an unincorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), must be called and held in pursuance of the provisions of this article. 1. The notice and call of such […]

64 – Changing System of Trustees.

§ 64. Changing system of trustees. 1. If the trustees of an incorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) shall at any time be elective as trustees and not trustees by virtue of being spiritual officers, the church may, at an annual corporate meeting if notice thereof be given with the notice […]

65 – Corporate Meetings.

§ 65. Corporate meetings. 1. In every incorporated church to which this article applies and in which the trustees thereof as such are elective, there shall be held an annual corporate meeting. Such annual corporate meeting of every incorporated church to which this article is applicable shall be held at the time and place fixed […]

66 – Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters Thereat.

§ 66. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat. 1. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable the following persons and no others shall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons who are then members in good and regular standing of such church by admission […]

67 – Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§ 67. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such date shall next thereafter occur less than six months after the annual meeting at which such change is made the next annual […]

68 – Changing Number of Trustees.

§ 68. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church to which this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, and classify them so that the terms of one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the […]

69 – Trustees, Their Meetings, Vacancies and Filling Thereof, Their Powers.

§ 69. Trustees, their meetings, vacancies and filling thereof, their powers. 1. Two trustees of an incorporated church, to which this article is applicable, may call a meeting of such trustees by giving at least twenty-four hours’ notice thereof personally or by mail to the other trustees. A majority of the trustees lawfully convened shall […]

70 – Definitions.

§ 70. Definitions. The words “spiritual officers,” as used in this article, include the pastor or pastors, the ruling elders, and the deacons, of any church to which this article is applicable.