CONSTITUTION OF LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

ARTICLE I.—NAME

No Authorcode

This organization shall be known as the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.14

ARTICLE II.—OBJECT

No Authorcode

The object of this Conference shall be to unify and extend the work of the everlasting gospel throughout this Conference and the mission fields of the world.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.15

ARTICLE III

No Authorcode

This Conference shall be comprised of the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and the Province of Ontario, and such other territory as may hereafter come under its supervision.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.16

ARTICLE IV.—MEMBERSHIP

No Authorcode

Section 1. This Conference shall be composed of such local Conferences as are or may be organized in any part of its territory, said Conferences having been accepted by vote of the Lake Union Conference.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.17

Sec. 2. Voters. Voters of this Lake Union Conference shall consists of duly accredited delegates of the local Conferences, as specified in Section 3 of Article 4 of the Constitution of Lake Union Conference, and such laborers of the Lake Union Conference as shall receive delegates’ credentials from the Executive Committee of said Conference.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.18

Sec. 3. Delegates. Each local Conference and mission field shall be entitled to one delegate in each session of the Lake Union Conference without reference to numbers, and an additional delegate for every four hundred (400) members in such local Conference. Such delegates shall be elected by the local Conference, or in case any local Conference fails to elect such delegates, they may be appointed by its Executive Committee.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.19

ARTICLE V

No Authorcode

Section 1. The officers of this Conference shall be a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, an Auditor, and an Executive Committee, consisting of the president of the Lake Union Conference, and the president of each local Conference in the Union, a business agent, a union canvassing agent, and five persons having qualifications in reference specially to the educational, publishing, sanitarium, German, and Scandinavian works respectively.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.20

Sec. 2. Election of Officers. Officers not otherwise provided for shall be elected at the regular sessions of the Conference, and shall hold their office for the term of two years, or until their successors are elected, and appear to enter upon their duties.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.21

ARTICLE VI

No Authorcode

Section 1. Regular Sessions. This Conference shall hold regular sessions at intervals of about two years, at such time and place as its Executive Committee shall designate by a notice in the Review and Herald at least three times within three months before the time of the meeting.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.22

Sec. 2. Extra Session. The Executive Committee may call extra sessions if occasion requires it, and due notice shall be given, and the transaction of such meetings shall be equally valid with those of the regular sessions.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.23

ARTICLE VII.—TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, AND AGENTS

No Authorcode

The members of this Conference shall at each regular session elect boards of management for such incorporated institutions and enterprises as are and may be connected with this organization, in accordance with the rules governing the same, and this Conference shall employ such committees, agents, ministers, missionaries, and other persons as may be necessary to carry on its work.GCB April 25, 1901, page 475.24

ARTICLE VIII

No Authorcode

Section 1. The funds of the Lake Union Conference shall consist of such tithes and other means as it may receive from the local Conferences, and such gifts, legacies, bequests, devises, and donations as may be made to it from time to time from other sources.GCB April 25, 1901, page 476.1

Sec. 2. Said funds shall be used in extending the everlasting gospel in harmony with Article II in the Constitution.GCB April 25, 1901, page 476.2

ARTICLE IX.—AMENDMENTS

No Authorcode

This Constitution may be amended by a three-fourths vote of the voters present at any session, provided that if it be proposed to amend the Constitution at a special session, special notice of the proposed amendment shall be given in the call for such special session.GCB April 25, 1901, page 476.3