BILL NO. 104
(as introduced)
2nd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
59 Elizabeth II, 2010
An Act to Incorporate the Trustees
of Liverpool United Baptist Church
(amended)
Vicki Conrad
Queens
First Reading: November 23, 2010
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
This Bill amends An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of Liverpool United Baptist Church to
(a) provide membership in the Church is governed by the constitution and by-laws of the Church rather than regional church usage and practice;
(b) require membership approval for the Trustees taking certain actions with respect to property;
(c) increase the value of property that may be dealt with by the Trustees from three hundred dollars to eight hundred dollars;
(d) decrease the majority of members required to approve certain actions of the trustees from four-sevenths of those voting to fifty per cent plus one;
(e) remove the requirement for board authorization for execution of documents;
(f) remove the restriction to being a trustee to "male" members;
(g) reduce the age requirement to be a trustee or to vote on matters pertaining to Church property or the election of trustees from twenty-one years to nineteen;
(h) change notice requirements for meetings from one Sunday before the meeting to two Sundays;
(i) change the procedures for business meetings from Canadian Parliamentary practice to those contained in Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Reviewed; and
(j) change various reference to "Chairman" to "Chair".
An Act to Amend Chapter 132
of the Acts of 1948,
An Act to Incorporate the Trustees
of Liverpool United Baptist Church
1 Section 2 of Chapter 132 of the Acts of 1948, An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of Liverpool United Baptist Church, is amended by
(a) striking out "usage and practice of the churches of the Maritime United Baptist Church in the Maritime Convention and Western Association of the United Baptist Denomination in the Province of Nova Scotia" in the fifth to ninth lines and substituting "constitution and by-laws of the Church"; and
(b) striking out "usage and practice" in the last line and substituting "constitution and by-laws".
2 Section 4 of Chapter 132 is amended by adding "and to the trustees having received approval for any action taken under this Section by the members at a business meeting of the Church" immediately after "Act" in the last line.
3 Section 7 of Chapter 132 is amended by
(a) striking out "Three" in the second line and substituting "Eight";
(b) striking out "four-sevenths of the persons present, belonging to" in the sixth and seventh lines and substituting "a vote of fifty per cent plus one of the members present at a business meeting of"; and
(c) striking out "at a meeting" in the ninth line and substituting "such meeting having been".
4 Section 8 of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "by the said board" in the last line.
5 Section 9 of Chapter 132 is amended by
(a) striking out "male" in the first line of clause (f);
(b) striking out "twenty-one" in the second line of clause (f) and substituting "nineteen"; and
(c) adding "in accordance with the constitution and by-laws of the Church" immediately after "re-election" in the second line of clause (g).
6 Clause 10(b) of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "Sunday next" in the fourth line and substituting "two Sundays".
7 Section 11 of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "of the Parliament of Canada" in the third line and substituting "contained in Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised".
8 Section 12 of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "twenty-one" in the first line and substituting "nineteen".
9 Chapter 132 is further amended by striking out "Chairman" wherever it appears in Chapter 132 and substituting in each case "Chair".
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