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Switching home lodges

nixxon2000

Premium Member
So here is (IMO) an interesting question. Had anyone moved across the state switched home lodges? Do you still have to pay dues at the lodge you use to belong to?

Someone in my lodge just moved to town and it seems like the old lodge is stating that he will always pay the lodge he was raised in full does and can only dual membership at any other lodge.

Any thought or ideas in that?
 

crono782

Premium Member
If you demit from a lodge, you don't continue pay dues. It depends if he is actually moving his membership or simply affiliating via a plural membership. If he is maintaining is previous membership, then yes he must continue to pay dues (unless he has taken out and endowed/lifetime membership, but that's a different topic). If he is completely moving his membership, then he could demit from his previous lodge and affiliate with the new one, thereby only paying one set of dues. Different states have different rules though, but that's the gist.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
There exist jurisdictions that only allow a brother to be a member of exactly one lodge. Such a jurisdiction requires switching.

There exist brothers who have to save up to pay lodge dues and to attend lodge events. Such a brother should switch (petition for affiliation combined with a simultaneous demit or demit a month after being elected).

Most brothers only have one "mother lodge" as most of us take all 3 degrees int he same lodge. The term "home lodge" isn't one I've heard commonly.
 

nixxon2000

Premium Member
So I guess it boils down to this. He wants to be a active member of our lodge and pay our dues. His old lodge has only a few members and the don't want him to go and lose the income.

What advice can I give my brother?
 

mrpierce17

KOP Council director / Lodge instructor
Premium Member
So I guess it boils down to this. He wants to be a active member of our lodge and pay our dues. His old lodge has only a few members and the don't want him to go and lose the income.

What advice can I give my brother?
Get active in the lodge in witch he is a member of pray on it and do everything in your power to make your lodge the perfect lodge for you , you have been equipped with the working tools of a master craftsman now put them to use build the lodge of your dreams
 

Companion Joe

Premium Member
I can't speak for your particular jurisdiction, but in my state, if a member in good standing asks for a demit, the lodge has no choice but to grant it.

If someone was permanently moving across the state, the common thing to do would be petition for affiliation to a lodge in his new town and demit from the other lodge. That way, you are only paying dues to the lodge which you attend/belong. If your state allows you to belong to more than one lodge and you wish to do so, that is an option, but as previously noted, you have to pay dues to both lodges.
 

nixxon2000

Premium Member
I can't speak for your particular jurisdiction, but in my state, if a member in good standing asks for a demit, the lodge has no choice but to grant it.

If someone was permanently moving across the state, the common thing to do would be petition for affiliation to a lodge in his new town and demit from the other lodge. That way, you are only paying dues to the lodge which you attend/belong. If your state allows you to belong to more than one lodge and you wish to do so, that is an option, but as previously noted, you have to pay dues to both lodges.

That would be my thought as well. If I can afford to be apart of multiple locations I would. It doesn't sound like he can.

Would it be good advice to point him to the grand lodge to help resolve this issue?
 

MarkR

Premium Member
Here, if you belong to one lodge in the state, you only have to pay the Grand Lodge "per-capita" dues once. At your second lodge, you only have to pay the portion of the dues that stay at that lodge.
 
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