2.2.8 Striking from roll

No subordinate lodge shall strike from its roll of membership the name of a member who has removed without its jurisdiction, until he shall have obtained a demit from said lodge, except as provided in cases of non-payment of dues assessed by the lodge.
See Standing Order No. 12.

Related Standing Orders

No. 12. Rights When Petitioning For New Lodge

Ordered: That the signature of a Mason to a petition for a dispensation to open or form a new lodge does not affect in any way his standing in his own lodge, his rights therein remaining unimpaired. No member of a lodge can sever his connection therewith, without the consent of the lodge, and the assent of the lodge to the petition for a dispensation cannot be construed to be a demit or a temporary suspension of his membership.

Gen. Regulations, Art. II, Sec. 2.2.8. May 16, 1874.