Chesapeake Association

Please Come Join Us at the
Chesapeake Association
Annual Fall Meeting 2010

Quorum and Rules of Fall Meeting

Lay delegates from not less than 10 local congregations of the Association and 25% of the ordained ministers who are members of the Association shall constitute a quorum.

Voting Membership

Ordained ministers holding standing in the Association, commissioned and licensed ministers of the Association, lay delegates from member congregations, lay members of the Association Council, lay delegates to the Conference, lay delegates to the General Synod of the UCC are members with vote.

Representation

Each member congregation is entitled to representation at meetings of the Association by two lay delegates, one of which should be the chief lay officer of the congregation, plus an additional lay delegate for each additional 100 members, or major fraction thereof, above the initial 200 members. Each member congregation is entitled to an additional delegate to the above listed, who shall be under twenty-one years of age at the time of election or appointment, and such delegates are to have full voice and vote. Every delegate must be a member of the congregation represented. Each member congregation shall determine the process by which its delegates are selected.