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Resolution Number: 1979-D033
Title: Amend Canon I.13.1 [Of Parish Vestries]
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That Title I, Canon 13, Sec. 1 be amended as follows:

Sec. 1. In every Parish of this Church the number, mode of selection, and term of office of Wardens and Members of the Vestry, with the qualifications of voters, shall be such as the State or Diocesan law may permit or require, and the Wardens and Members of the Vestry selected under such law shall hold office until their successors are selected and have qualified.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-20.