Chapter 46 : Jurisdiction

Paragraph 1 :

46-1. When a church member shall remove his residence beyond the bounds of the congregation of which he is a member, so that he can no longer regularly attend its services, it shall be his duty to transfer his membership by presenting a certificate of dismission from the Session of the church of which he is a member to the church with which he wishes to unite.
When the church of which he is a member has no Session, or for other good reasons it seems impossible for the member to secure a certificate of dismission, he may be received by the Session upon other satisfactory testimonials, in which case the church of which he was a member shall be
duly notified.

[HISTORICAL SUMMARY : The current PCA text remains unchanged from that of PCUS 1925.]

ANTECEDENT TEXTS :
1. PCA 1973, RoD, 20-1, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly, p. 154
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, RoD, 20-1, Proposed text, p. 60
3. PCUS 1933, RoD, XX-§297
4. PCUS 1925, RoD, XX-§297
When a church member shall remove his residence beyond the bounds of the congregation of which he is a member, so that he can no longer regularly attend its services, it shall be his duty to transfer his membership by presenting a certificate of dismission from the Session of the church of which he is a member to the church with which he wishes to unite. When the church of which he is a member has no Session, or for other good reasons it seems impossible for the member to secure a certificate of dismission, he may be received by the Session upon other satisfactory testimonials, in which case the church of which he was a member shall be duly notified.

PCUS 1879, Rules of Discipline, XV-1
When any member shall remove from one church to another, he shall produce satisfactory testimonials of his church-membership and dismission before he be admitted as a regular member of that congregation, unless the church Session has other satisfactory means of information.

PCUS 1869 draft, Canons of Discipline, XV-1
When any member shall remove from one congregation to another, he shall produce satisfactory testimonials of his Church-membership and dismission before he be admitted as a regular member of that congregation, unless said congregation has other satisfactory means of information.

PCUS 1867 draft, Canons of Discipline, XV-1
When any member shall remove from one congregation to another, he shall produce satisfactory testimonials of his church-membership and dismission before he be admitted as a regular member of that congregation, unless said congregation has other satisfactory means of information.