Officers and Directors shall hold office until their successors are
elected and qualify.
Election Term
SEC. 7. There shall be a Board of Directors to consist of 24 insur-
ance members, the Supreme Chaplain and Past Supreme Knights of
the Order who retired from office in good standing. The regular term
of Directors other than the Supreme Chaplain and Past Supreme
Knights shall be three years from and after the first day of September
following their election. At each annual meeting the Supreme Council
shall elect eight insurance members to serve as Directors for regular
terms, except that at the annual meeting to be held in 1995 the
Supreme Council shall select ten insurance members to serve as
Directors and of the members so selected the eight members having
the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of three years,
the member having the next highest number of votes shall be elected
for a term of two years and the member having the next highest num-
ber of votes shall be elected for a term of one year. In case of a tie the
choice shall be determined by lot. Vacancies shall be filled by
appointment by the Board of Directors. The appointees shall hold
office until the next annual meeting of the Supreme Council when a
successor shall be elected to fill the unexpired term.
Selection of Supreme Officers
SEC. 8. Annually, at its first meeting held on or after September
first in 1955 and thereafter, the Board of Directors shall elect a
Supreme Chaplain and a Supreme Warden and shall appoint, from
their own number, a Supreme Knight, a Deputy Supreme Knight, a
Supreme Secretary, a Supreme Treasurer, a Supreme Advocate and a
Supreme Physician, to serve for a term of one year, unless removed
for cause. It shall fill any vacancies for the unexpired terms of
Supreme Officers heretofore or hereafter elected or appointed. It
shall appoint an Insurance member to perform the duties of Supreme
Advocate or Supreme Physician if there is not a Supreme Director eli-
gible, qualified and available for appointment to either office.
Powers and Authority
SEC. 9. All executive authority shall be vested in the Board of
Directors; said Board shall have general supervision of the affairs of
the Order, shall cause the laws of the Order to be faithfully executed
and administered, shall exercise all executive authority through itself
or committee over the state and subordinate councils, chapters and
members of the Order, shall have full control and management of all
matters as to and of disputes, discipline, funds or property of the
Order, other than funds or property of subordinate councils, and of
all other concerns of the Order, except when otherwise provided by
law or by vote of the Supreme Council, and shall have full power and
authority to interpret the laws of the Order of the Knights of
Columbus, consistent with the spirit thereof, and the well-being of
the Order, and the determination of said Board of Directors on any
trial or appeal allowed by law shall be final.
Meetings
SEC. 10. The Board of Directors shall meet at least quarterly and
may be convened at any time for cause by the Supreme Knight.
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CHAPTER II
STATE COUNCILS
Organization
SEC. 11. When three or more subordinate councils in good standing
exist with an aggregate membership of four hundred in any state, dis-
trict, territory or country, the Board of Directors may direct that a
State Council be organized. Thereupon, upon notice from the
Supreme Knight, a convention of the councils affected shall be called
and such councils shall be represented in said convention by the
Grand Knight and a Past Grand Knight of such subordinate council in
good standing, and such convention shall organize a State Council,
elect State Officers and transact such business as State Councils are
by law permitted to transact. Councils having no Past Grand Knight
may elect any member in good standing in lieu thereof as a represen-
tative of said council to said convention.
Membership — Officers — Eligibility
SEC. 12. (a) State Councils shall consist of the Grand Knight and a
Past Grand Knight, actually residing in the state or jurisdiction, from
each subordinate council in good standing, and State Officers, ex offi-
cio, and the last living Past State Deputy. Provided, however, that
when the last living Past State Deputy is actually residing in another
state or jurisdiction, he shall thereby forever forfeit such right, and
his nearest predecessor actually residing in such state or jurisdiction
shall be entitled thereto. If there be more than one Past Grand Knight,
the council shall elect the one to represent it in the State Convention.
A council having no Past Grand Knight may elect any one of its Third
Degree members in good standing in lieu thereof as a representative
of said council in the State Council. Each subordinate council shall
elect alternates for its representatives in the State Council.
(b) Past State Deputies, other than the last living Past State Deputy,
and District Deputies, shall be permitted the privileges of member-
ship in the State Council, but without the right to vote therein.
Should any State Council so provide in its by-laws, chairmen of
standing committees of said State Council in a number not to exceed
twelve, who are not otherwise members of said State Council, may be
permitted the privileges of membership in said State Council with a
right to speak on questions pertaining to the functions of their partic-
ular committees but without the right to vote therein.
(c) State Councils shall elect by ballot from the membership at
large a State Deputy, State Secretary, State Treasurer, State Advocate
and State Warden, and representatives and alternates to the Supreme
Council. A State Chaplain shall be appointed by the State Officers.
Officers of State Councils shall hold office for a term of one year from
and after the first day of July following their election and until their
successors have been elected and qualified.
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