Committee Members

Duties:

To the Committee on Civil Law shall be referred all questions of title to property owned or claimed by this Grand Lodge of by any one or more of its Constituent Lodges and, also, all titles, deeds, mortgages and other documents relating to real estate owned or claimed by this Grand Lodge or by any one or more of its Constituent Lodges; provided that this Article shall not apply to any property, real or personal, owned or claimed by, or held for the use and benefit of, the Masonic Home and School.

It shall also be the duty of this Committee and of its Chairman and several members, upon the request of the Grand Master, to counsel and advise him, upon any civil law legal matter arising in the course of his administration and the advisability of employing legal counsel in regard thereto.

And in addition, when this Grand Lodge or the Grand Master refers to said Committee any questions relating to the sale or other disposition of Lodge buildings, the creation of debts by Subordinate Lodges, or of establishing liens on Lodge property, it shall be the duty of said Committee to examine the matter and made prompt report thereon, with its recommendation, and a majority of its members in good standing of the State Bar of Texas.