457.666 Supreme temple; powers. Sec. 6. The supreme temple shall have full and exclusive power to make, ordain, establish, enact, modify, revise, amend and repeal a constitution, laws, by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the supreme, grand and subordinate temples of the order, and the governmental departments of such temples, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this state; and to designate, elect, or appoint officers of the supreme temple, to designate grand or subordinate temples, under such name and styles as shall be prescribed in the constitution and laws of the order, and to designate the mode and time of electing or appointing of officers of such temples, and for their suspension and removal, and for the mode of accepting, organizing, instituting and chartering grand and subordinate temples of the order; and suspending or revoking any charter so granted. It shall have power to create and organize for itself, its grand and subordinate temples and to prescribe the powers and duties of each; and to create, manage and disburse, and provide for the creation, management and disbursement by grand and subordinate temples, of all ordinate temples and to prescribe the powers and duties of each; and to create, manage and disburse, and provide for the creation, management and disbursement by grand and subordinate temples, of all funds collected by such temples. History: 1895, Act 18, Imd. Eff. Mar. 14, 1895 ;-- CL 1897, 8133 ;-- CL 1915, 10607 ;-- CL 1929, 10815 ;-- CL 1948, 457.666
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