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:'''<span id="782:13">(13)</span>''' To instruct the local church secretary concerning the removal of the name of a member who has joined another religious body or secret society ([[595]]); to recommend to the local church conference that it remove from the roll by majority vote the name of a member who has moved away and neither transferred membership to the nearest Wesleyan church nor maintained contact with and support of the former church ([[600]]), and that it remove by a majority vote the name of a member who has failed to attend or support the church where membership is held for one year without proper reason ([[605]]), unless the local church conference shall have delegated full responsibilities in such matters to the local board of administration ([[655:1]]).
:'''<span id="782:13">(13)</span>''' Review at least quadrennially with the district superintendent an extended call and by majority vote to reaffirm the call or recommend for the local church conference to vote on renewing the call ([[720:2]]); to meet, at the request of one third of its members and under the district superintendent or a representative appointed by the district superintendent as chair, to consider the possibility of ordering a pastoral vote and to call for such a vote by majority vote ([[722:2]]).

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(13) Review at least quadrennially with the district superintendent an extended call and by majority vote to reaffirm the call or recommend for the local church conference to vote on renewing the call (720:2); to meet, at the request of one third of its members and under the district superintendent or a representative appointed by the district superintendent as chair, to consider the possibility of ordering a pastoral vote and to call for such a vote by majority vote (722:2).