Decisions
This section contains the Decisions of the Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island.
Active Decisions
- 01 Setting aside a Constitutional requirement
- 02 Voting in lodges under dispensation
- 03 Requirements for becoming Master
- 04 Height or weight restrictions
- 07 Examining Committee Report
- 08 Disclosure of vote
- 09 Demits
- 10 Refund of fee for previous degree
- 11 Suspension of by-laws
- 12 Degree of Lodge for approval of records
- 13 Chapter or Commandery funerals
- 14 Additions to charges once served
- 15 Filing false petitions
- 17 Affirmation versus Oath
- 18 Stopping the work of a Lodge
- 19 Will and pleasure
- 20 Recognition of motions
- 21 Release of Jurisdiction
- 22 Supercedure of Wardens
- 23 Trials and member-Lodge relationship
- 24 Withdrawing from Freemasonry
- 25 Reimbursement for relief
- 26 Blank ballots at election of officers
- 27 Minimum required to confer degrees
- 29 Resident with foreign degrees
- 30 Determining the validity of objections
- 31 Determining the Masonic Year
- 32 Residents with out-of-State residences
- 33 Affiliation without certificate of Demit
- 34 Written application for re-admission
- 35 Applications following rejection
- 36 Withdrawal of ballots
- 37 When a Master is considered such
- 38 How charges affect other rights
- 39 Objections from non-members
- 40 Rejection and demits
- 41 Restrictions for unaffiliated Masons
- 42 Restoration following explusion
- 44 Suspension for unmasonic conduct
- 45 Use of robes in degree work
- 46 Removal of objecting officers by Master
- 47 Objections not withdrawn or overruled
- 48 Clarification of petition categories
- 50 Renewal of rejected petitions
- 51 Removal from Jurisdiction
- 52 Statement of clear ballot
- 53 Status following withdrawal of petitions
- 55 Requests to be dropped
- 57 Refund of fees prior to removal
- 58 Expiration of dispensations
- 59 Clarification of residence
- 60 Lodge trial for an EA
- 61 Demand for trial by an EA
- 62 Penalities for an Entered Apprentice
- 63 Administering the Obligation
- 64 Assistance during Degree work
- 66 Appointing an acting Master
- 67 Support for objections
- 68 Authorized funeral ceremonies
- 70 Armed Forces exemption
- 72 Reinstatement of deceased members
- 73 Number of Entered Apprentice initiated
- 74 Ballot versus vote
- 78 Grand Lecturers and Grand Marshals
- 79 Rescinded
- 80 Fifty-year Medal eligibility
- 81 Written evidence of balloting error
- 83 Reinstatement for plural membership
- 84 Eyesight restrictions
- 85 Honorary titles from other jurisdictions
- 86 Masonic memorial service and cremains
- 87 Honorary membership ID card
- 88 Participation in parades
- 89 Assistant Grand Lecturers
- 90 Grand and Associate Grand Chaplians
- 91 Seals of The Grand Lodge And Grand Master
- 92 Clarification of Line Officers
- 93 Printed in error
- 94 Electronic communication of Lodge Notices
- 95 Establish a Board of Governance for the Grand Lodge
- 96 Degree of Lodge for approval of records
- 97 Clarification of electronic communication of Lodge Notices
- 98 Past Grand Master's Medallion
- 99 Grand Hailing Sign at closing of a Lodge of Master Masons
- 100 Honorary Past Masters are not members of Grand Lodge
- 101 The Lewis Jewel
- 102 Permanent Investigating Team
- 103 Rallies, Marches & Demonstrations
- 104 Active Grand Lodge Electronic Database
- 105 Additional Grand Lodge Officer Appointments by the Grand Master
Rescinded Decisions
- 05 Rescinded - Recommendations from rejecting Lodges
- 06 Rescinded - Implicit reference to demitted members
- 16 Rescinded - Participation in processions
- 28 Rescinded - Communication particulars not in By-laws
- 43 Rescinded - Clarifying St Andrews' jurisdiction
- 49 Rescinded - Clarification of residence requirements
- 54 Rescinded
- 56 Rescinded
- 65 Rescinded
- 69 Rescinded
- 71 Rescinded
- 75 Rescinded
- 76 Rescinded
- 77 Rescinded
- 82 Rescinded - Separate ballot for each petition